Bundel over de bijdrage van vrouwen aan de agrarische sector in ontwikkelingslanden. Bevat: Liberalisation, gender, and the land question in sub-Saharan Africa/ door Izumi: Does land ownership make a difference? Women's role in agriculture in Kerala, India/ door Arun: Rural devopment in Brazil: are we practising feminism or gender/ door Sardenberg, Costa en Passos: Women farmers and economic change in northern Ghana/ door Naylor: 'Lazy men', time-use, and rural development in Zambia/ door Whitehead: Integration gender needs into drinking-water projects in Nepal/ door Shibesh Chandra Regmi en Fawcett: Structural adjustment, women, and agriculture in Cameroon/ door Fonchingong: Interview with Penny Fowler and Koos Neefjes of Oxfam GB: are genetically modified foods a new development?
Bundel artikelen over de positie van vrouwen in verschillende landen in de context van het gezin. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: A voice of alarm: a historian's view of the family / door Anna Arroba: Patriarchy and development in the Arab world / door Suad Joseph: Fighting female infanticide by working with midwives: an Indian case study / door Ranjani K. Murthy: Female-headed families: a comparative perspective of the Caribbean and the developed world: Structures and processes: land, families, and gender relations / door Susie Jacobs: Women, the law, and the family in Tunisia / Hafidha Chekir: Marginalisation and gay families in Latin America and the Caribbean / door Dinnys Luciano Ferdinand: Child-care and the benefits trap: a case from the UK / door Annie Oliver. Verder nog een interview met Maria Isabal Plata van Profamilia.