Women, Gender and Development Reader Book

	Preface
	Sources
	General Introduction	1
1	Development as History and Process	7
Pt. 1	Theories of Women, Gender and Development
	Introduction to Part 1	17
2	The Making of a Field: Advocates, Practitioners and Scholars	33
3	Accumulation, Reproduction and Women's Role in Economic Development: Boserup Revisited	42
4	Gender and Development	51
5	Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development	54
6	Women in Nature	62
7	The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India	68
8	The African Context: Women in the Political Economy	75
9	Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses	79
10	Bargaining with Patriarchy	86
Pt. 2	Households and Families
	Introduction to Part 2	103
11	Accounting for Women's Work: The Progress of Two Decades	112
12	Daughters, Decisions and Dominations: An Empirical and Conceptual Critique of Household Strategies	118
13	The Hidden Roots of the African Food Problem: Looking within the Rural Household	132
14	Subordination and Sexual Control: A Comparative View of the Control of Women	142
15	Wife Abuse in the Context of Development and Change: A Chinese (Taiwanese) Case	150
16	Single-parent Families: Choice or Constraint? The Formation of Female-headed Households in Mexican Shanty Towns	155
Pt. 3	Women in the Global Economy
	Introduction to Part 3	177
17	The Subordination of Women and the Internationalization of Factory Production	191
18	Maquiladoras: The View from the Inside	203
19	Capitalism, Imperialism and Patriarchy: The Dilemma of Third World Women Workers in Multinational Factories	216
20	Women in the Informal Labor Sector: The Case of Mexico City	230
21	Deindustrialization and the Growth of Women's Economic Associations and Networks in Urban Tanzania	238
Pt. 4	International Women in Social Transformation
	Introduction to Part 4	257
22	Impact of the Economic Crisis on Poor Women and their Households	267
23	Ghana: Women in the Public and Informal Sectors under the Economic Recovery Programme	277
24	Abuses against Women and Girls under the One-child Family Plan in the People's Republic of China	284
25	Women, Population and the Environment: Whose Consensus, Whose Empowerment?	293
26	AIDS: Women Are Not Just Transmitters	302
27	Gender, Nation and Colonialism: Lessons from the Philippines	309
28	Women, Marriage and the State in Iran	317
29	Return to the Veil: Personal Strategy and Public Participation in Egypt	320
30	Capitalism and Socialism: Some Feminist Questions	326
31	Downwardly Mobile: Women in the Decollectivization of East European Agriculture	333
Pt. 5	Women Organizing Themselves for Change
	Introduction to Part 5	361
32	Planning from a Gender Perspective	366
33	Women as Political Actors in Rural Puerto Rico: Continuity and Change	374
34	Women and the Labour Movement in South Korea	378
35	SEWA: Women in Movement	382