Maria Mies: Difference between revisions

In 1981, Mies decided to return to Cologne and the University of Applied Sciences and Sarkar, her husband, joined her there permanently in 1982. She became involved in the [[Ecofeminism|ecofeminist movement]], as well as in activism against [[genetic engineering]] and [[reproductive technology]], which she saw as an expropriation of a woman's right to give birth and a commercialization of human production. She was one of the founders of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering.<ref name="Bauer" /> Within this organization and in her works, she argued that women from the Global North were urged to use invasive technologies such as [[In vitro fertilisation|assisted fertilisation]] and [[surrogacy]] to increase their child-bearing, while women in the [[Global South]] were pressed to limit births to control population growth.<ref name="Bauer" /><ref name="Sandilands" >{{cite journal |last1=Sandilands |first1=Catriona |title=Reviewed Work: Ecofeminism by Maria Mies, Vandana Shiva |journal=[[Economic Geography (journal)|Economic Geography]] |date=January 1996 |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=96–99 |doi=10.2307/144510 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/144510 |access-date=20 May 2023 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |location=New York, New York |jstor=144510 |issn=0013-0095 |oclc=5548541985}}</ref>{{rp|97}} Mies also pointed out that to exercise [[Bodily integrity|decisions about their bodies]], women are limited by systems designed, controlled, and administered by health providers and government officials.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kato |first1=Yutaka |title=Reproductive Technology: What Is the Impact of Fertility Treatment and Regenerative Medicine on Society? by Azumi Tsuge (review) |journal=East Asian Science, Technology and Society |date=2015 |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=91–94 |doi=10.1215/18752160-2835763 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/4/article/577039/pdf |access-date=21 May 2023 |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |location=Durham, North Carolina |s2cid=75669458 |issn=1875-2160 |oclc=5795963720}}</ref>{{rp|93}} She became more active in pacifist activities, participating in a resistance camp [[NATO Double-Track Decision#Protests|protesting]] against a [[NATO]] plan to station nuclear warheads in Germany in 1983. Her pacifism was reinforced by her opposition to the idea put forth by [[Alice Schwarzer]] that women could gain emancipation if they had the same violent means which were available to men. Opposed to war, Mies could not reconcile that simple equality with men would overcome hierarchical systems that devalued women.<ref name="Bauer" /> Having retired from teaching in 1993, she continued to be active in women's and other social movements.<ref name="Spiegel" /> She was a founding member of [[Attac]], formed in 1999, and organized feministAttac, in 2001 at the association's congress, held that year in Berlin.<ref name="Spiegel" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Wir haben eine aufrichtige Mitstreiterin verloren |url=https://www.attac.de/neuigkeiten/detailansicht/news/mariamies |website=Attac Deutschland |publisher=Attac Trägerverein e.V. |access-date=1 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523104520/https://www.attac.de/neuigkeiten/detailansicht/news/mariamies |archive-date=23 May 2023 |location=Frankfurt am Main, Germany |language=German |trans-title=We've Lost a Genuine Comrade-in-Arms |date=22 May 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>