Centraal in deze bundel staan de gevolgen van de economische politiek op de positie van vrouwen in Afrika en het Caraïbisch gebied. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Structural adjustment and gender in Guinea Bissau / door Rosemary Galli en Ursula Funk: The impact of structural adjustment on maternal and child health in Nigeria / door Folasode Iyun: Structural adjustment and female wage labor in the Nigerian textile industry / door Adebayo en Haussainatu Olukoshi: Crisis and structural adjustment in Sierra Leone : implications for women / door A. Zack-Williams: Gender and adjustment : pictures from Ghana / door Lynne Brydon en Karen Legge: Engendering the adjustment process in Trinidad and Tobago : perspectives and policy issues / door Gwendoline Williams and Ralph Henry: Guyanese women in action : response and reactions to economic reform / door Adeline Apena: Possiblities for cushioning the adverse effects of the structural adjustment programs on vulnerable women in Zambia / door Mosebjane Malatsi: Economic crisis, structural adjustment and Africa's future / door Julius Ihonvbere.