Maria Mies is a Marxist feminist scholar and activist renowned for her theory of capitalist-patriarchy which recognizes third world women and difference. In 1979 at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague she founded the Women and Development programme. She has written numerous books and articles that deal with topics relating to feminism third world issues and the environment including The Lace Makers of Narsapur (1982) Women: The Last Colony (1988) Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale (1999) and The Subsistence Perspective (1999). Vandana Shiva a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker is director of the Research Foundation on Science Technology and Ecology India. In 1993 Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize and in 2010 was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for her commitment to social justice. She is the author of over 20 books including Staying Alive (1989) The Violence of the Green Revolution (1991) Biodiversity (1992) Monocultures of the Mind (1993) Biopolitics (1995) Stolen Harvest (2001) Protect or Plunder (2001) Earth Democracy (2005) and Soil Not Oil (2009). . Language: English