Unequal burden: economic crises, persistent poverty, and women's work

Crises, poverty and gender inequality - current themes and issues, Shelley Feldman from survival strategies to transformation strategies - women's needs and structural adjustment, Diane Elson women and the economic crisis in the Caribbean, Helen I. Safa and Peggy Antrobus the Mexican debit crisis - restructuring the economy and the household, Lourdes Beneria crisis, Islam and gender in Bangladesh - the social construction of a female labour force, S. Feldman the politics of Bolivia's economic crisis - survival strategies of displaced tin-mining households, Wendy McFarren the impact of crisis and economic reform on women in urban Tanzania, Aili Mari Tripp gender relations and food security - coping with seasonality, drought and famine in South Asia, Bina Agarwal women's work and…