This collection of essays seeks to provide an understanding of gender relations in sustainable development. Researchers, activists and policy-makers from the North and South offer new ways to challenge dominating knowledge-systems and development institutions.

An analysis of the emerging cultural characteristics of women's activities on the Internet across the developed and the developing world. Contributors demonstrate how the Internet can empower women working within very different cultural environments to inform and change global cultures.

Body Politics in Development sets out to define body politics as a key political and mobilizing force for human rights in the last two decades. This book reveals how once tabooed issues such as rape, sexual and reproductive rights have emerged fully fledged into the public arena as critical grounds of contention and struggle.

An intervention into the study of gender, power and reproduction around the world, this book explores issues of health, empowerment, sexuality and reproductive rights, issues fundamental to the ongoing international development debate on population and gender.

This volume highlights women's work sustaining local economies and environments, particularly in response to the current food, fuel and climate crises. It includes women's role in the green entrepreneurship, women's reproductive and productive work in the care economy, and a further examination of eco feminist debates.