Staying Alive - Women, Ecology, and DevelopmentInspired by womens struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that maldevelopmentthe violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, and injusticeis dragging