Esther Ngan-ling Chow is Professor of Sociology at The American University. Catherine White Berheide is Associate Professor of Sociology at Skidmore College.

"The strength of this book is the powerful introduction to the field of women and development and its integration with issues and data from studies of the family and gender. The authors argue strongly and demonstrate clearly the necessary interdependence of theory development in all of these specialties." — Rachel Kahn-Hut, San Francisco State University"The topic is useful and timely; the collection contains an enormous amount of information on both the theme and on the local context in which each study is set. The style of argument among the articles is quite uniform: straightforward, well supported, and cogently presented. Consequently, the volume is dense—packed with information and relatively free from digressions, polemic, or fluff." — Elizabeth McLean Petras, Drexel University

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Studying Women, Families, and Policies Globally EstherNgan-ling Chow and Catherine White BerheidePart I: Changing State Policies, Women, Families, and Economic Development 1. Women, Families, and Public Policy in SwedenJoan Acker2. Repudiation versus Divorce: Responses to State Policy in TunisiaMounira Charrad3. The Impact of the One-Child Policy on Women and the Patriarchal Family in the People's Republic of ChinaEsther Ngan-ling Chow and Kevin Chen4. Working without Wages in Australian WelfareCora Vellekoop Baldock5. Women's Work, Wealth, and Family Survival Strategy: The Impact of Guatemala's ALCOSA Agribusiness ProjectRae Lesser BlumbergPart II: Stategic and Practical Gener Interests, Families, and Policies 6. Controlling Less Land, Producing Less Food: The Fate of Female-Headed Households in MalawiCatherine White Berheide and Marcia Texler Segal7. The Urban Street Food Trade: Regional Variations of Women's InvolvementIrene Tinker8. Women, Political Activism, and the Struggle for Housing: The Case of Costa RicaMontserrat Sagot9. Fertility, Selective Recruitment, and the Maquila Labor ForceSusan Tiano10. Childcare Arrangements of Employed Mothers in TaiwanChin-Chun YiPart III: Conclusion 11. Perpetuating Gender Inequality: The Role of Families, Economies, and StatesCatherine White Berheide and Esther Ngan-ling ChowAbout the ContributorsIndex