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).

Foreword - Ariel Salleh
Preface to the 'Critique Influence Change' edition
1. Introduction: Why We Wrote This Book Together
Part I: Critique and Perspective
2. Reductionism and Regeneration: A Crisis in Science, Vandana Shiva
3. Feminist Research: Science, Violence and Responsibility, Maria Mies

Part II: Subsistence V. Development
4. The Myth of Catching-up Development, Maria Mies
5. The Impoverishment of the environment: Women and Children Last, Vandana Shiva
6. Who Made Nature Our Enemy?, Maria Mies

Part III: The Search for Roots
7. Homeless in the 'Global Village', Vandana Shiva
8. Masculinization of the Motherland, Vandana Shiva
9. Women Have No Fatherland, Maria Mies
10. White Man's Dilemma: His Search for What He has Destroyed, Maria Mies

Part IV: Ecofeminism V. New Areas of Investment through Biotechnology
11. Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation, Vandana Shiva
12. New Reproductive Technologies: Sexist and Racist Implications, Maria Mies
13. From the Individual to the Dividual: the Supermarket of 'Reproductive alternatives' Maria Mies

Part V: Freedom for Trade or Freedom for Survival
14. Self Determination: The End of a Utopia? Maria Mies
15. GATT, Agriculture and Third World Women, Vandana Shiva
16. The Chipko Women's Concept of Freedom, Vandana, Shiva