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== Scholarly contributions ==
From the mid-1980s, Mies published her most important works which explored the links between patriarchy, [[capitalism]] and [[colonialism]] in the exploitation and subjugation of women.<ref name="Bauer" />
In the book ''Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale Women in the International Division of Labour'' (1986), Mies evaluated the development of feminism, the sexual division of labour, and how violence shaped politics in Africa, Asia, and [[Latin America]].<ref name="Léveillé" /> In her analysis, the process of "housewifisation" was based on the Western ideals of capital accumulation, meaning that by destroying women's autonomy and making them possessions, men were able to acquire productive capital and amass wealth. She saw family violence, not as a remnant of ancient society, but as a part of the processes to modernise. In the work, she noted that socialist development had created similar social structures limiting women and argued for creation of a utopian feminist society.<ref name="Léveillé" />{{rp|150}} In Mies's vision, the basis for work would be usefulness rather than accumulation, allowing consumers in overdeveloped places to fulfill their needs from producers in underdeveloped countries gaining worldwide relief from exploitation.<ref name="Léveillé" />{{rp|150–151}} Léveillé noted that while such a plan might work, its drawback was that it devalued things like music, flowers, and art, which while not essential or necessary to support human life provided therapeutic benefits.<ref name="Léveillé" />{{rp|151}}
Picking up themes from ''Patriarchy and Accumulation'', Mies's 1988 book ''Women: The Last Colony'' written with Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen and [[Claudia von Werlhof]] expanded on themes of domination bringing colonised people into the analysis. They explained that just as women were rendered invisible, subjugated people were isolated from mainstream society and were treated as a natural resource to be exploited.<ref name="Meintel" />{{rp|388}} Departing from a strict [[Marxist feminism|Marxist feminist]] argument, the central theme of the work was that the exploitation and oppression of women and colonised people were not secondary results caused by capitalism, but fundamental to creating the mechanisms of global production.<ref name="Meintel" />{{rp|388–389}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wilkinson-Weber |first1=Clare M. |title=Skill, Dependency, and Differentiation: Artisans and Agents in the Lucknow Embroidery Industry |journal=[[Ethnology (journal)|Ethnology]] |date=Winter 1997 |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=49–65 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_ethnology_winter-1997_36_1/page/n53/mode/1up |access-date=21 May 2023 |publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh Press]] |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |doi=10.2307/3773935 |jstor=3773935 |issn=0014-1828 |oclc=7781060900}}</ref>{{rp|50}} {{Lang|fr|[[Université de Montréal]]|italic=no}} anthropology professor,
''Ecofeminism'' (1993), witten by Mies and Vandana Shiva used a Marxist approach to evaluate climate change, loss of diversity, multi-systemic failures, and resistance. They evaluated how production systems and accumulation caused dispossession of land and culture, leading to problems such as world hunger.<ref name="Andrieu & Eliosoff">{{cite journal |last1=Andrieu |first1=Jimena |last2=Eliosoff Ferrero |first2=María Julia |title=Crisis multisistémicas y resistencias en los territorios latinoamericanos. Diálogo con Maria Mies y Vandana Shiva desde el ecofeminismo |journal=Cuadernos de Economía Crítica |date=2019 |volume=5 |issue=10 |pages=171–177 |url=https://doaj.org/article/d0baa90f891a4090ab1efd7dcf1c75d6 |access-date=20 May 2023 |trans-title=Multisystemic Crises and Resistance in Latin American Territories: Dialogue with Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva about Ecofeminism |publisher=Sociedad de Economía Crítica de Argentina y Uruguay |location=Buenos Aires, Argentina |language=Spanish |issn=2408-400X |oclc=9456617883}}</ref>{{rp|171–172}} Mies and Shiva argued that women were linked internationally by their common experiences related to capitalist expansion. According to the environmental scholar [[Catriona Sandilands]], unlike other ecofeminist works the book demonstrated that despite geographical differences and socio-economic variances "women's lives and bodies are being colonised" through capitalist mechanisms.<ref name="Sandilands" />{{rp|97–98}} The book was updated and republished in 2014, and translated into Spanish in 2016, concluding that the issues were worsening instead of improving.<ref name="Andrieu & Eliosoff" />{{rp|171–172}} Evaluating the links between technology and science and cultural development, Jimena Andrieu and María Julia Eliosoff Ferrero, noted that Mies and Shiva pointed out that globalisation has led to a crisis by [[Commodification|commodifying]] and [[Privatization|privatising]] everything to increase production and profits, thereby reducing human freedoms.<ref name="Andrieu & Eliosoff" />{{rp|173}} They argued that by placing nurturing of life and health as the focal point of economics, a balance between society, the economy, and the ecosystem is restored.<ref name="Andrieu & Eliosoff" />{{rp|174}} The re-issuance of the book sparked new debate on the roles of women in resistance movements in the Global South. With large sectors of the population unemployed and living in poverty, the turn toward subsistence and producing only goods that sustain life becomes questionable, according to Andrieu and Eliosoff.<ref name="Andrieu & Eliosoff" />{{rp|175}}
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