Maria has been an inspiration in developing the women's movement and in the anti-globalisation movement and has managed to bring it into the mainstream by high quality philosophy and writing on areas of economics. Her ideas span patriarchy and accumulation, feminism, body politcs, house-wifisization - women as breeders and consumers, witchification of women's knowledge and the rise of modern science, amenocentisis and femicide, and many more interesting and well researched innovative iall backed up by thorough accademic research from the 1st professor of women's studies in the world.

Her books are well worth a read and always challenging and she has written on ecofeminism with Vandana Shiva.

her book Women the last colony, written with a collegue may become one of the "Green economics series" books published by the Institute in association with Pluto Press.She is currently putting together some of her very influential speeches into a book.

Maira is a sociologist and author of several books including Indian Women and Partriarchy,1980, The Lace Makes of Narspur, 1982, with Claudia von Werlhof, and Vveroinka Bennhodlt Thomsen Women the Last colony, Zed 1988. Her highly acclaimed book Patriarchy and accumulation on a global scale has been reprinted 3 times since 1986. She spent many years inIndia and then became head of womens studies programme in the Hague and then Professor of sociology at the Fachhochschule in Cologne. Her books include

"Patriarchy and accumulation on a world scale " Zed Books

"Ecofeminism"

"Women the last colony"

among many others

welcome to Maria.

Miriam Kennet

May 2005