Women and politics in the Third World / Haleh Afshar.

Analysing women in the politics of the Third World; women and the state in the Third World; feminist perspectives on democratisation in the South:engendering or adding women in? the role of women in the resistance to political authoritariansim in Latin America and South Asia; Nicaraguan women, resistance, and the politics of aid; Chinese women: media concerns and the politics of reform; social policies and rural women's fertility behaviour in the People's Republic of China, 1979-90; Women and the politics in post-Khomeini Iran: divorce, veiling and emerging feminist voices; the women's movement, feminism and the national struggle in Palestine: unresolved contradictions; Palestinian women and the Intifada: an exploration of images and realities.