Maria Mies (born 1931,

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, Rhine Province,

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) is a German professor of

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and author of several feminist books, including ''Indian Women and Patriarchy'' (1980), ''Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale'' (1986), and (with Bennholdt-Thomsen and von Werlhof) ''Women: The Last Colony'' (1988). She is Professor of Sociology at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, which is a

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, Germany. She worked for many years in India. In 1979 she established the Women and Development programme at the Institute of Social Studies in

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, Netherlands. She has been active in the women's movement and in

women's studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppress ...

since the late 1960s. She has published several books and many articles on feminist, ecological and developing-world issues. One of her main concerns is the development of an alternative approach in methodology and in economics. Having retired from teaching in 1993, she continues to be active in the women's and other social movements; she is a member of feministAttac, a women's network of

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. She has published a book on the

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and, with Veronika Bannholdt, has written a book on the subsistence perspective (from ''Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale''). She is married to the eco-socialist

Saral Sarkar Saral Sarkar (Bengali সরল সরকার), born 10 May 1936 in West Bengal, is an Indian-German academic and eco-socialist political activist. Sarkar taught at the Goethe Institute in Hyderabad from 1966 to 1981, as a lecturer in Germa ...

Bibliography

*''Indian Women and Patriarchy: Conflicts and Dilemmas of Students and Working Women''. New Delhi: Concept (1980). . * ''Lace Makers of Narsapur: Indian Housewives Produce for the World Market.'' London: Zed Books (1982). . * with Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, and Claudia Von Werlhof. 1988. ''Women: The Last Colony''. London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA. * with Vandana Shiva. ''Ecofeminism''. London: Zed Books (1993). . * with Sinith Sittirak. ''The Daughters of Development: Women in a Changing Environment''. London: Zed Books (1998). . * ''Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour''. London: Zed Books (1999). . * with Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen. ''The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy''. London: Zed Books (2000). . *''The Village and the World: My Life, Our Times''. North Melbourne: Spinifex Press (2011). .

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