Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, philosopher, feminist and the director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, Dehradun, India. She is an active opponent of environmental destruction, associated with the Chipko movement, and a leading critic of current agricultural and reproductive technologies. She brings together the struggles of gender, ecology, ethnicity, class and human rights in her books, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development, The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics, and Monocultures of the Mind.