The women, gender, and development reader / edited by Nalini Visvanathan (co-ordinator) ; Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff, and Nan Wiegersma.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Theories of Women, Gender and Development. The Making of a Field: Advocates, Practitioners and Scholars -- Accumulation, Reproduction and Women's Role in Economic Development: Boserup Revisited -- Gender and Development -- Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development -- Women in Nature -- The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India -- The African Context: Women in the Political Economy -- Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses -- Bargaining with Patriarchy -- part 2. Households and Families. Accounting for Women's Work: The Progress of Two Decades -- Daughters, Decisions and Dominations: An Empirical and Conceptual Critique of Household Strategies -- The Hidden Roots of the African Food Problem: Looking within the Rural Household -- Subordination and Sexual Control: A Comparative View of the Control of Women -- Wife Abuse in the Context of Development and Change: A Chinese (Taiwanese) Case -- Single-parent Families: Choice or Constraint? The Formation of Female-headed Households in Mexican Shanty Towns -- part 3. Women in the Global Economy. The Subordination of Women and the Internationalization of Factory Production -- Maquiladoras: The View from the Inside -- Capitalism, Imperialism and Patriarchy: The Dilemma of Third World Women Workers in Multinational Factories -- Women in the Informal Labor Sector: The Case of Mexico City -- Deindustrialization and the Growth of Women's Economic Associations and Networks in Urban Tanzania -- part 4. International Women in Social Transformation. Impact of the Economic Crisis on Poor Women and their Households -- Ghana: Women in the Public and Informal Sectors under the Economic Recovery Programme -- Abuses against Women and Girls under the One-child Family Plan in the People's Republic of China -- Women, Population and the Environment: Whose Consensus, Whose Empowerment? -- AIDS: Women Are Not Just Transmitters -- Gender, Nation and Colonialism: Lessons from the Philippines -- Women, Marriage and the State in Iran -- Return to the Veil: Personal Strategy and Public Participation in Egypt -- Capitalism and Socialism: Some Feminist Questions -- Downwardly Mobile: Women in the Decollectivization of East European Agriculture -- Women Organizing Themselves for Change -- Introduction to Part 5 -- Planning from a Gender Perspective -- Women as Political Actors in Rural Puerto Rico: Continuity and Change -- Women and the Labour Movement in South Korea -- SEWA: Women in Movement.