Women And The State

Shirin M. Rai, Geraldine Lievesley

• Introduction, Shirin M. Rai, Geraldine Lievesley; Chapter 1 Women and the State in the Third World: Some Issues for Debate, Shirin M. Rai; Chapter 2 Should Women Give Up on the State? – The African Experience, Ann Stewart; Chapter 3 Stages of Growth? – Women Dealing with the State and Each Other in Peru, Geraldine Lievesley; Chapter 4 State-Building in the Absence of State Structures: Palestinian Women in the Occupied Territories and Shi’i Women in Lebanon, Maria Holt; Chapter 5 En-Gendering the Nation-State: Women, Patriarchy and Politics in Algeria, Malika Mehdid; Chapter 6 Democratization, Feminism and the State in Chile: The Establishment of SERNAM, Georgina Waylen; Chapter 7 Dis/Organizing Gender: Women Development Agents in State and NGO Poverty-Reduction Programmes in Bangladesh, Anne Marie Goetz; Chapter 8 Working from Within: Women and the State in the Development of the Courtyard Economy in Rural China, Tamara Jacka; Chapter 9 Women, Migration and the State, Annie Phizacklea;