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Staying alive : women, ecology, and development / Vandana Shiva.
Van Pelt Library HQ1240.5.I4 S54 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shiva, Vandana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in development--India.
- Women in development.
- Patriarchy.
- India.
- Human ecology--India.
- Human ecology.
- Patriarchy--India.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Zed Books, 1988.
- Summary:
- Janet Reibstein's mother and two aunts grew up in New Jersey amid a close-knit, extended Jewish family set apart only by a genetic propensity for breast cancer. Over fifty years, the disease claims Janet's two aunts, then her mother, then a cousin. Finally Janet must face the far-reaching decision of whether to undergo a preemptive mastectomy herself. A history of the disease in America as well as a story of sisters, mothers and daughters, and the men who love them, "Staying Alive" is ultimately a tale of extraordinary strength and of the power of love in survival.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN:
- 0862328225
- 0862328233
- OCLC:
- 18558228
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