Gender Challenges
Volumes 1, 2 and 3
Bina Agarwal
Table of Contents
Vol 1
AGRICULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, AND FOOD SECURITY
List of Tables and Figures
Abbreviations
Preface
Credits
Introduction
Women and Technological Change in Agriculture: The Asian and African Experience
Agricultural Mechanisation and Labour Use: A Disaggregated Approach
Rural Women and the High Yielding Variety Rice
Women, Poverty, and Agricultural Growth in India
Work Participation of Rural Women in the Third World: Some Data and Conceptual Biases
Diffusion of Rural Innovations: Some Analytical Issues and the Case of Wood-burning Stoves
Social Security and the Family: Coping with Seasonality and Calamity in Rural India
Rethinking Agricultural Production Collectivities
Food Crises and Gender Inequality
References
Index
Vol 2
PROPERTY, FAMILY, AND THE STATE
List of Tables and Figures
List of Abbreviations
Credits
Introduction
Gender and Command Over Property: A Critical Gap in Economic Analysis and Policy in South Asia
Gender and Legal Rights in Agricultural Land in India
Widows vs Daughters or Widows as Daughters?: Property, Land, and Economic Security in Rural India
'Bargaining' and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household
'The Family' in Public Policy: Fallacious Assumptions and Gender Implications
Toward Freedom from Domestic Violence: The Neglected Obvious
'Bargaining', Gender Equality and Legal Change: The Case of India's Inheritance Laws
Gender and Resistance and Land: Interlinked Struggles Over Resources and Meanings in South Asia
The Idea of Gender Equality: From Legislative Vision to Everyday Family Practice
Gender and Land Rights Revisited: Exploring New Prospects via the State, Family and Market
References
Index
Vol 3
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND COLLECTIVE ACTION
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Credits
Introduction
The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India
Environmental Management, Equity, and Ecofeminism: Debating India's Experience
Conceptualizing Environmental Collective Action: Why Gender Matters
Gender, Environment, and Poverty Interlinks: Regional Variations and Temporal Shifts in Rural India: 1971-91
Participatory Exclusions, Community Forestry, and Gender: An Analysis for South Asia and a Conceptual Framework
Gender Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability
Does Women's Proportional Strength Affect their Participation? Governing Local Forests in South Asia
Rule Making in Community Forestry Institutions: The Difference Women Make
Gender and Forest Conservation: The Impact of Women's Participation in Community Forest Governance
Afterword
References
Index