The Village and the World My Life, Our Times

"A beautiful journey between two remote poles: The Self and the World. This book is inspiring and creative. I hope it is widely read." - Nawal El Saadawi. In this autobiography, Maria Mies packs in seventy-seven years of life: from the small German village of her childhood, to the world of the Indian subcontinent. Sociologist and Women's Studies researcher, scholar, ecofeminist, and international activist, Maria Mies is one of the world's original thinkers. "Despite all my travels around the world, I have never forgotten where I came from: from a peasant family in a small village. This not only helped me keep my feet on the ground, but also protected me from excessive romanticism and quixotic idealism. I know that the food doesn't come from the supermarket but from the soil." - Maria Mies.

Maria Mies is a German scholar, an activist, and the author of The Lacemakers of Narsapur and Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labor.