
Gender Challenges
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- Gender Challenges: Volume 1: Agriculture, Technology, and Food Security
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes
- List of Abbreviations
- Credits
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1: Women and Technological Change in Agriculture: The Asian and African Experience
- 2: Agricultural Mechanisation and Labour Use: A Disaggregated Approach
- 3: Rural Women and the High Yielding Variety Rice Technology in India
- 4: Women, Poverty, and Agricultural Growth in India
- 5: Work Participation of Rural Women in the Third World: Some Data and Conceptual Biases
- 6: The Diffusion of Rural Innovations: Some Analytical Issues and the Case of Wood-Burning Stoves
- 7: Social Security and the Family: Coping with Seasonality and Calamity in Rural India
- 8: Rethinking Agricultural Production Collectivities
- 9: Food Crises and Gender Inequality
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- About the Author
- Gender Challenges: Volume 2: Property, Family, and the State
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Credits
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1: Gender and Command over Property: A Critical Gap in Economic Analysis and Policy in South Asia
- 2: Gender and Legal Rights in Agricultural Land in India
- 3: Widows versus Daughters or Widows as Daughters?: Property, Land, and Economic Security in Rural India
- 4: 'Bargaining' and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household
- 5: 'The Family' in Public Policy: Fallacious Assumptions and Gender Implications
- 6: Toward Freedom from Domestic Violence: The Neglected Obvious
- 7: 'Bargaining', Gender Equality, and Legal Change: The Case of India's Inheritance Laws
- 8: Gender, Resistance, and Land: Interlinked Struggles over Resources and Meanings in South Asia
- 9: Gender and Land Rights Revisited: Exploring New Prospects via the State, Family, and Market
- 10: The Idea of Gender Equality: From Legislative Vision to Everyday Family Practice
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- About the Author
- Gender Challenges: Volume 3: Environmental Change and Collective Action
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Credits
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1: The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India
- 2: Environmental Management, Equity, and Ecofeminism: Debating India's Experience
- 3: Conceptualising Environmental Collective Action: Why Gender Matters
- 4: Gender, Environment, and Poverty Interlinks: Regional Variations and Temporal Shifts in Rural India, 1971-91
- 5: Participatory Exclusions, Community Forestry, and Gender: An Analysis for South Asia and a Conceptual Framework
- 6: Gender Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability
- 7: Does Women's Proportional Strength Affect Their Participation?: Governing Local Forests in South Asia
- 8: Rule Making in Community Forestry Institutions: The Difference Women Make
- 9: Gender and Forest Conservation: The Impact of Women's Participation in Community Forest Governance
- Afterword
- Challenging Mainstream Economics: Some Reflections
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- About the Author
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