Gender Challenges : Essays by Bina Aggarwal.

Cover -- 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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