In this groundbreaking collection with its diverse perspectives, feminist thinkers explore whether Third World women ought to continue along the path of development or abandon full-scale modernization and seek post-development alternatives instead. It represents the first attempt to ascertain the possibilities, and limitations, of the post-development path for women.

Contents:
Abbreviations;
Acknowledgements;
Contributors;
Introduction: Towards a Deconstructive Post-Development Criticism - Kriemild Saunders;
Part I: Aiding Development or Post-Development;
1. Lessons from the Field: Rethinking Empowerment, Gender and Development in a Post (Post?) Development Perspective - Jane Parpart;
2. Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools? Gender Work in and with Powerful Bureaucracies - Kathleen Staudt;
3. Trails of Turquoise: Feminist Enquiry and Counter-development in Ladakh, India - Ravina Aggarwal;
Part II: The Feminization of the Global Economy;
4. Countergeographies of Globalization: Feminization of Survival - Saskia Sassen;
5. Engendering Globalization in an Era of Transnational Capital: New Cross-Border Alliances and Strategies of Resistance in a Post-NAFTA Mexico - Marianne Marchand;
Part III: More Worldly Feminisms;
6. Development: Feminist Theory's Cul-de-Sac - Marnia Lazreg;
7. Picture more at Variance, of Desires and Development in the People's Republic of China - Tani Barlow;
8. Developmentalist Feminism and Neocolonialism in the Andean Communities - Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Loyda Sanchez;
Part IV: The Science Question in Development;
9. Mad Cows and Sacred Cows - Vandana Shiva;
10. Global Circulations: Nature, Culture and the Possibility of Sustainable Development - Banu Subramaniam, James Bever and Peggy Schulz;
11. Do the Marginalized Valorize the Margins? Exploring the Dangers of Difference - Meera Nanda;
Part V: Stories From the Field:
12. Participatory Research: A Tool in the Production of Knowledge in the Development Discourse - Patience Elabor-Idemudia;
13. Ethnographic Acts: Writing Women and Other Political Fields - Piya Chatterjee;
14. Practising Theory through Women's Bodies: Public Violence and Women Strategies of Power and Place - Ramona Perez;
Part VI: Other Bodies;
15. Body Politics: Revisiting the Population Question - Wendy Harcourt;
16. Reproductive Technology: From a Third World Feminist Perspective - Esther Wangari;
17. Gender, Bodies and Cosmos in Mesoamerica - Sylvia Marcos ;
References and bibliography;
Index.