Searching for Security

Isa Baud is associate Professor of the Institute of Human Geography, University of Amsterdam; Ines Smyth has recently joined OXFAM as a Policy Advisor.

• 1. SEARCHING FOR SECURITY: Women's Responses to Economic Transformations Isa Baud and Ines Smyth 2. GLOBAL CHANGE AND INSECURITY: Are Women the Problem of the Solution? Ruth Pearson 3. THE RETREAT OF THE STATE IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING CARIBBEAN: The Impact on women and their Responses Gemma Tang Nain 4. INFORMAL SOCIAL SECURITY IN AFRICA FROM A GENDER PERSPECTIVE Gudrun Lachenmann 5. IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH: Gender Issues in Health Policy and their Implications for the 1990s Jo Beall 6. HOW CAN HUNGARIAN WOMEN LOSE WHAT THEY NEVER HAD? Maria Adamik 7. ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING IN MALAYSIA: Implications for Women Workers Chee Heng Leng and Cecilia Ng Choon Sim 8. TARGETING WOMAN-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS AND WOMAN-MAINTAINED FAMILIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Mayra Buvinic and Geeta Rao Gupta

'This is a timely book and the style is a model of clarity. The volume makes concrete suggestions for enhancing economic and political security for women in the midst of global restructuring - Swasti Mitter, Development and Change