This groundbreaking book is based on interviews and focus groups with women of different backgrounds and ethnicities whose lives illustrate the strength of character and optimism that have often enabled them to live through hard times but who, in general, view later life positively.

This groundbreaking book is based on interviews and focus groups with women of different backgrounds and ethnicities whose lives illustrate the strength of character and optimism that have often enabled them to live through hard times but who, in general, view later life positively.

The process of globalization has had an impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade. This text explores the experiences of women in diverse local contexts within different cultures and faiths, drawing on case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

This book addresses itself to the relationship between the ideological and material which has long occupied a primary place in Marxist scholarship and is seen to be of central importance to feminist analysis. This book looks at some aspects of the debate in the context of Asia.

This collection of essays attempts to explode the myths created by years of orientalist writings about Middle Eastern women. The romanticized images are contrasted with the demands of daily battles for survival and the long-running struggles for political and economic liberation.

This work provides a feminist analytical pespective on the forms of resistance, organization and negotiation used by women in Third World states, including regions as diverse as Latin America, China and the Middle East.

The authors in this volume address the question What is empowerment? Is it power over resources? Is it the ability to create effective demand ? They evaluate how in different circumstances different political agents have been seen as provider of resources.

The process of globalization has had an impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade. This text explores the experiences of women in diverse local contexts within different cultures and faiths, drawing on case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

This volume seeks to move away from the oppositional positions taken by Western and Muslim women. It aims to provide an understanding of the possibilities and limits that the process of reconstruction and reinterpretation of Islamic dictum presents for progress of women in Islamist countries.