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PATRIARCHY AND ACCUMULATION ON A WORLD SCALE WOMEN IN THE INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Maria Mies is a Marxist feminist scholar who is renowned for her theory of capitalist patriarchy, one which recognizes third world women and difference. She is a professor of sociology at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, but retired from teaching in 1993. Since the late 1960s she has been involved with feminist activism. In 1979, at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, she founded the Women and Development programme. Mies has written books and articles that deal with topics relating to feminism, third world issues and the environment. Her other titles published by Zed Books include The Lace Makers of Narsapur (1982), Women: The Last Colony (1988), The Subsistence Perspective (1999) and Ecofeminism (2014).

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