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![]() ![]() She came from a rural background, growing up in a family of farmers in Auel, a village in the Vulkaneifel. Mies was born in Hillesheim on 6 February 1931 to Johann and Gertrud Mies. Mies received numerous awards for her contributions to feminist scholarship, including the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2001. ![]() One of her main concerns was the development of an alternative, feminist and decolonial approach in methodology and in economics. ![]() She wrote extensively on the ways in which women's labour was devalued and exploited under capitalism, and how women's struggles for liberation are intertwined with the broader struggles for social and environmental justice. From the late 1960s, her work focused on the intersection between capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism. She came from a rural background in the Vulkaneifel, and wrote her dissertation about the conditions of women in India that she researched. Maria Mies (6 February 1931 – ) was a German professor of sociology, Marxist feminist, activist for women's rights, and author. Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Indian Women and Patriarchy (1980), Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale (1986), Women: The Last Colony (1988), Ecofeminism (1993), The Subsistence Perspective ![]()
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