Jennifer Turpin is Associate Professor and Chair of the Women's Studies Department at the University of San Francisco. Her previous books include Rethinking Peace, Reinventing the Soviet Self and The Web of Violence. LoisAnn Lorentzen is Associate Professor of Social Ethics at the University of San Francisco. Her articles on environmnetal ethics and women and development emerge from extensive fieldwork in Cental America where she worked as a wilderness guide and refugee settlement worker.

• Introduction: The Gendered New World Order, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Jennifer Turpin; Chapter 1 Women, Gender, Feminism, and the Environment, Lorraine Elliott; Chapter 2 To Act Without “ISMS”:, Lenore B. Goldman; Chapter 3 Gender, Class, and Race in Environmental Activism:, Claire McAdams; Chapter 4 The Indian Women’s Movement, Ecofeminism, and the Politics of Peace, Linda Rennie Forcey; Chapter 5 Land, Ecology, and Women:, Claire Van Zevern; Chapter 6 Sustainable Development and Women:, Julie Fisher; Chapter 7 Women, the State, and Development:, Hamideh Sedghi; Chapter 8 The Dilemmas of Modern Development:, Mary J. Osirim; Chapter 9 Gender and the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Geeta Rao Gupta, Ellen Weiss, Daniel Whelan; Chapter 10 African Women’s Strategies to Advance Household Food Security, Ruth K. Oniang’o; Chapter 11 Women’s Health and Development, Kathleen M. Merchant; Chapter 12 War and Violence Against Women, Vesna Nikoli?-Ristanovi?; Chapter 13 Women’s Visions of Peace:, Betty Reardon;