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Maria Mies (6 February 1931 – 15 May 2023) was a German professor of sociology, a Marxist feminist, an activist for women's rights, and an author. She came from a rural background in the Volcanic Eifel, and initially trained to be a teacher.
Patriarchy and Accumulation develops and extends arguments first made in an earlier classic case study by Maria Mies, The Lace Makers of Narsapur (1982). The lace workers in question were home-based women, either creating individual pieces or assembling them into larger items such as garments, tablecloths and bedspreads (assembly, or athukupani ...
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Aug 9, 2014 · Maria Mies is a Marxist feminist scholar who is renowned for her theory of capitalist-patriarchy, which recognizes third world women and difference. She is a Professor of Sociology at Fachhochschule in Cologne, Germany, but retired from teaching in 1993.
Sociologist and Women’s Studies researcher, scholar, ecofeminist, and international activist Maria Mies is one of the world’s original thinkers. In her recent autobiography, now available in English, she presents her life, from her childhood in a small German village, to years on the Indian subcontinent and much more. Congratulations, Maria!
May 22, 2023 · Maria Mies, Professor in Sociology at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, was the first senior Women and Development (W&D) lecturer at the International Institute of Social Studies from 1979 till 1981.
Jun 16, 2023 · Maria Mies was a German sociologist who greatly contributed to feminism, especially ecofeminism, with her formulations about development, the dynamics of accumulation, globalization, and ecological crisis.
When Maria Mies died, on 15 May 2023, I was re-reading her work on India, to reflect on its contemporary relevance for analyses of the world of work. I am profoundly saddened that the first way in which I will use my ...
