Een feministische analyse van politieke activiteiten door vrouwen in ontwikkelingslanden, met gebruikmaking van case studies. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Analysing women in the politics of the third world / Georgina Waylen : Women and the state in the third world / Shirin Rai : Feminist perspectives on democratisation in the South: engendering or adding women in? / Donna Pankhurst en Jenny Pearce : The role of women in the resistance to political authoritarianism in Latin America and South Asia / Rohini Hensman : Nicaraguan women, resistance, and the politics of aid / Jasbir K. Puar : Chinese women: media concerns and the politics of reform / Delia Davin : Social policies and rural women's fertility behaviour in the People's Republic of China, 1979-90 / Aiping Mu : Women and the politics of fundamentalism in Iran / Haleh Afshar : Women and politics in post-Khomeini Iran: divorce, veiling and emerging feminist voices / Ziba Mir-Hosseini : The women's movement, feminism and the national struggle in Palestine: unresolved contradictions / Kathy Glavanis-Grantham : Palestinian women and the Intifada: an exploration of images and realities / Maria Holt.