Persistent Inequalities

• Preface; About the Authors; Introduction: Irene Tinker: A Context for the Field and for the Book; Ester Boserup: Economic Change and the Roles of Women; Part One: The Politics of Women in Development: Irene Tinker: The Making of the Field: Advocates, Practitioners, Scholars; Jane Jacquette: Gender and Justice in Economic Development; Charlotte Bunch and Roxanna Carrillo: Feminist Perspectives on Women in Development; Susan C. Bourque and Kay B. Warren: Access is not Enough: Gender Perspectives on Technology and Education; Linda Y.C. Lim: Women's Work in Export Factories: The Politics of a Cause; Part Two: Intrahousehold Distribution and Control: Amartya K. Sen: Gender and Co-operative Conflicts; Benjamin Senauer: The Impact of the Value of Women's Time on Food and Nutrition; Hanna Papanek: To Each Less Than She Needs, from Each More Than She Can Do: Allocations, Entitlements, and Value; Part Three: Challenging Patriarchy: Vina Mazumdar and Kumud Sharma: Sexual Division of Labor and the Subordination of Women: A Reappraisal from India; Simi Afonja: Changing Patterns of Gender Stratification in West Africa; Christine Obbo: Women, Work, and the Articulation of Dominance: An East Africa Lament; Joycelin Massiah: Defining Women's Work in the Commonwealth Caribbean; Ken Kusterer: The Imminent Demise of Patriarchy.

'The book is a blending of theory and practice aiming to provide the reader with an understanding of the field of women and development.' Studies on Women Abstracts