Table of Contents

* Foreword * Acknowledgements 1. What is gender? 2. Why development is a gender issue 3. Mothers and housewives? Gender, reproductive and productive work 4. Upholding and challenging gender subordination 5. 'A triple yoke of oppression': gender, class and caste in a post-colonial world 6. Development at the crossroads 7. Reassessing the role of women 8. Some practical issues in development 9. Actors in social change * Notes and references * Index.