Women and Ecology

Women and Ecology Gail Omvedt THIS is written in response to DN's critique (EPW, April 14) of Vandana Shiva's (VS) book Staying Alive. DN's note was of course not so much cast in the form of a polemical attack as in the form of providing additional information based on considerable experience among Jharkhand adivasis; nevertheless it was a critique, one written with the purpose of extending a very important debate on women and ecology. In the same spirit, I would like to respond to some points.