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Dangerous Intersections
Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development
Jael Silliman (Editor) and Ynestra King (Editor)
Pages: 284ISBN: 0-89608-598-8
Format: cloth
Release Date: 1999-01-01
This book is also available in paper
A Project of the Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment
This collection of original critical essays by well-known feminist scholars and activists presents a multicultural, international scope on the major global issues of the day: environment, development, and population control.
Dangerous Intersections provides crucial alternative voices and approaches to the short-sighted policies supported by many mainstream politicians and nongovernmental organizations policies that focus on the fertility of poor women of color, North and South, as the primary threat to the ecological viability of the planet. The authors make a reasoned yet impassioned argument for making women the central agents of their own fate and the fate of the planet.
Contributors Include
Asoka Bandarage; Marsha J. Tyson Darling; Marlene Gerber Fried; Betsy Hartmann; H. Patricia Hynes; Joni Seager; Jael Silliman; Andy Smith; Justine Smith; April Taylor; Meredeth Turshen; Meredith Tax
Table of Contents
Introduction
by Jael Silliman
Appendix A Women, Population,
and the Environment: Call for a New Approach
Appendix B Immigration and
Environment Campaign
1 Population, Environment, and Security: A New Trinity, by Betsy
Hartmann
2 Population and Development: Toward a Social Justice Agenda, by
Asoka Bandarage
3 Taking Population Out of the Equation: Reformulating I=PAT, by
H. Patricia Hynes
4 Christian Responses to the Population Paradigm, by Andy Smith
5 The Ecological Crisis in Tanzania, by Meredeth Turshen
6 Power of the Word: Culture, Censorship and Voice, by Meredeth Tax
and Women's WORLD
7 Expanding Civil Society, Shrinking Political Spaces: The Case of Women's
Nongovernmental Organizations, by Jael Silliman
8 Patriarchal Vandalism: Militaries and the Environment, by Joni
Seager
9 Consumption: North American Perspectives, by H. Patricia Hynes
10 Native Sovereignty and Social Justice: Moving Toward an Inclusive
Social Justice Framework, by Justine Smith
11 The State: Friend or Foe? Distributive Justice Issues and African
American Women, by Marsha J. Tyson Darling
12 High-Tech, Pop-a-Pill Culture: “New” Forms of Social Control
for Black Women, by April J. Taylor
13 Legal, But…: Abortion Access i...
Jael Silliman
Click here to view Jael Silliman's full Author PageJael Silliman has been an activist both in the US and international women’s health and reproductive rights movements. She was a program officer at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, an early supporter of organizations of women of color. She was an associate professor of women’s studies at the University of Iowa, where she wrote about social movements, women’s health, and reproductive rights. She is currently the program officer for reproductive rights in the Human Rights Unit at the Ford Foundation. Her most recent book is Policing the National Body: Race, Gender, and Criminalization, co-edited with Anannya Bhattacharjee. She is from India and is an immigrant to the US.