De auteurs verkennen het theoretische framework en de sociale context van onderwijs voor vrouwen dat niet door de overheid gereguleerd wordt in een aantal Latijnsamerikaanse landen. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Reflections on the gender perspective in experiences of non-formal education with women / door Lilian Celiberti: Gender and innovation / door Graciela Messina: Towards a pedagogy of education programmes for grassroots women / door Miryan Zúñiga: The education dimension in projects with women / door Manuel Bastias: Everyday violence and women's education in Latin America / door Linda King: Participatory action research from a gender perspective: a methodology (Colombia) / door Clara Inés Mazo López: A gender education programme for women and men (Ecuador) / door Cecilia Barraza: Self-diagnosis for peasant women (Bolivia) / door Carmen Llanos Badaui: Gender and development among peasant women (Peru) / door Josefa Ramíz: Salvadorian women and feminist theory in popular education (El Salvador) / door Norma Vázquez: The motherhood we experience and want: an experience with working women (Mexico) / door María de Lourdes Valenzuela: Women leaders for women victims of war (Peru) / door Yanet Palomino: Legal facilitators school (Honduras) / door Hogla Teruel: Rural women as actors in development: the training of leaders (Mexico) / door Irma Estela Aguirre: A school for grassroots women leaders (Peru) / door Ana María Robles: Peasant and indigenous women's social and political participation (Chile) / door Vivían Gavilán: Family leaders for health development (Colombia) / door Angela Rocío Acosta: Women and local development in popular sectors in urban areas (Chile) / door Valeria Sánchez: Self-management in indigenous women's handicrafts micro-business (Bolivia) / door Mireya Barrios Rosso.