Isabella Bakker is a political economist at York University, Canada.

'The artful combination of conceptual essays and specific case studies makes this book an excellent resource from both a methodological and a practical viewpoint.'Julie A. Nelson, University of California, Davis'Offers a much needed corrective to how we examine and interpret the complex issues which frame the relationship between gender and economic policy.'Shelley Feldman, director of the Program on Gender and Global Change, Cornell University'Fills a very important gap in the field of gender and development.'Naila Kabeer, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

• ContributorsAcknowledgementsPreface - Maureen O'Neil1. Introduction: Engendering Macro-economic Policy Reform in the Era of Global Restructuring and Adjustment - Isabella BakkerPart I: Conceptual Silences and New Research Strategies2. Micro, Meso, Macro: Gender and Economic Analysis in the Context of Policy Reform - Diane Elson3. Shifting the Boundaries: Gender and the Politics of Restructuring - Janine Brodie4. Structural Adjustment, Demographic Change and Population Policies: Some Preliminary Notes - Caren Grown5. Gender, Productivity and Macro-economic Policies in the Context of Structural Adjustment and Change - Marjorie W. WilliamsPart II: Macro-economics, the State and the Household: Lessons from the North and South6. Restructuring in the Fishing Industry in Atlantic Canada - Martha MacDonald7. The Implications of Economic Restructuring for Women: The Canadian Situation - Marjorie Griffin Cohen8. Gender Bias and Macro-economic Policy: Methodological Comments from the Indonesian Example - Barbara Evers9. Turkish Women and Structural Adjustment - Nilufer Cagatay10. Mexican Rural Women Wage Earners and Macro-economic Policies - Antonieta Barrón11. Women and the State: Some Considerations of Ideological and Economic Frameworks in Engendering Policies - Haleh Afshar12. The Impact of Structural Adjustment Policies on Women: Some General Observations Relating to Conceptual Bias - Swapna MukhopadhyayIndex