Author: Visvanathan, Nalini; Duggan, Lynn; Nisonoff, Laurie & Wieegersma, Nan; editors:
Title: The Women, Gender & Development Reader
Description: London, Zed Books, (1997). orig.boards. 24x15cm, xiii,396 pp. Textual tables.. Minor rubbing. Small slight bump to cover edge. VG. ¶ Contains 35 papers concerning Theories of Women, Gender & Development; Households & Families; Women in the Global Economy; International Women in Social Transformation; Women Organizing Themselves for Change. Includes: I.Tinker "The Naming of a Field: Advocates, Practitioners & Scholars": L. Beneria & G. Sen "Accumulation, Reproduction & Women's Role in Economic Development: Boserup Revisited"; K. Young "Gender & Development"; R. Braidotti; et al: "Women, the Environment, & Sustainable Development"; V. Shive "Women in Nature"; B. Agarwal "The Gender & Environment Debate: Lessons from India"; M. Snyder & M. Tadesse "The African Context: Women in the Political Economy"; C.T. Mohanty "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship & Colonial Discourses"; D.L. Wolf "Daughters, Decisions & Dominations: An Empirical & Conceptual Critique of Household Strategies"; J. Koopman "The Hidden Roots of the African Food Problem: A Comparative View of the Control of Women"; R. Gallin "Wife Abuse in the Context of Development & Change: A Chinese (Taiwanese) Case"; M.P. Fernandez-Kelly " Maquiladoras: The View from the Inside"; L.Y.C. Lim "Captialism, Imperialism & Patriarchy: The Dilemma of Third World Women Workers in Multinational Factories"; A.M. Tripp "Deindustiralization & the Growth of Women's Economic Associations & Networks in Urban Tanzania"; T. Manuh " Ghana: Women in the Public & Informal Sectors Under the Economic Recovery Programme"; H. Hoodfar "Return to the Veil: Personal Strategy & Public Participation in Egypt"; etc.

Keywords: Development Sociology, Women, Gender, Political Economics, Economic History, Economy, Politics, Labor Labour, Social