Preface: The Year of the PandemicIntroductionA note on truthA note on wordsKey terms in this bookChapter One: The Crisis of Economics: Patriarchal Wars against People and the PlanetAppropriation of politicsHow has criticism of globalisation shifted sides? The speeding vortex: every failure is a new business opportunityUnderstanding neoliberalismResistanceMarkets, work and the Universal Basic IncomeChapter Two: Less Than Perfect: Medical Wars against People with Disabilities FeminismRuling classesInfantilisationColonisationHarm minimisationNormalisationErasureThe technology of bodiesMoneyThe personal is politicalChapter Three: Feminist Cassandras: Men's Patriotic Wars against Women's Intimate Lives War and the institution of heterosexuality intersectWar and masculinity, torture and heterosexualityIntimacy and warTo counter war is to counter the militarism embedded in daily lifePostmodern warMoneyWhat would it take for a woman to be free of injury and to live without fear for her safety?Chapter Four: Biocolonialism and Bioprospecting: Wars against Indigenous Peoples and WomenWhat is bioprospecting?What is biopiracy?Biopiracy of earth-based resourcesBiopiracy and valueBiopiracy of body-based resourcesSeparationMicrocolonialism of Indigenous bodies GynocolonialismBodies with disabilities HeterocolonialismIntergenerational sustainability and cultural integrityMoneyWhat practices and laws can be implemented to prevent knowledge theft and biocolonialism?Chapter Five: Deterritoriality and Breaking the Spirit: Land, Refugees and TraumaBeing homeless in the bodyDispossessionLand as relationship Land as relationship in prehistory TraumaRefusing refugeesMoneyWhat systems could be put in place to end planetary theft?Chapter Six: Colonisation, Erasure and Torture: Wars against LesbiansGlobalisationThe politics of shameThe phallus and the penisOrigins of patriarchy and violence against lesbiansNationalism and exileGlobal recolonisationLesbian refugeesMoneyGuidelines for officials interviewing lesbian refugeesChapter Seven:Breaking the Spirit of the Women's Liberation Movement: The War against BiologyTrans v cisTrans vs intersexTrans vs lesbianTrans vs womenWomen's CircusOppressionPostmodernism and queer theorySilenceTraumaHatred and shameBreaking the spiritTheft of a future and a pastCommodificationStrategies used by the trans lobbyViolence against trans peopleInstitutionalising trans lawsMoney for astroturfing and transgender causesWhy sexual orientation not gender identity?Chapter Eight:Breaking the Spirit of the Planet: Climate CatastropheBreaking the spirit of the planetTemperate zone: bushfiresDry zone: drought and water warsWet zone: coral death, cyclones, floodsMoneyBreaking the heart of the planetChapter Nine: Sovereignty and the Spirit of Nature UncultivatedSovereignty.
Vortex : The Crisis of Patriarchy