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Critiquing capitalism, industrialism, patriarchy and white supremacy, she shows how population control acts as another dimension of our essentially hierarchical world order - and one that is moving us inexorably towards violence and destruction.  Finally, Asoka Bandarage explores new global visions and efforts towards peace, justice and ecology - efforts that place human and planetary reproduction above economic production. Arguing for a new partnership paradigm which stresses the interconnectedness of life, the book‘s political significance lies in the synthesis of third world, feminist, socialist and ecological thinking and solutions.  A major contribution to the socio-historical analysis of population-poverty-environment relations, this book cuts across the North\/South divide bringing to light the dialectics of gender, race and class on a global scale. 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