Feminist Futures: Reimagining Women Culture and Development

1. An introduction to women, culture and development

Part I: Sexuality and The Gendered Body
2. More "Tragedies" in out-of-the-way places: oceanic interpretations of another scale' / Kaita Sem
3. `Revolution with a woman's face? Family norms, constitutional reform and the politics of redistribution in post/neoliberal Ecuador / Amy Lind
4. Claiming the state: revisiting women's reproductive identity in India's development policy / Rachel Simon-Kumar
5. Abortion and African culture: a case study of Kenya / Jane Wambui Njagi
6. Bodies and choices: African matriarchs and Mammy Water / Ifi Amadiume

Part II: Environment, Technology, Science
7. New lenses with limited vision: Shell scenarios, science fiction, storytelling wars / Akanksha Munshi-Kurian
8. Development nationalism: science, religion and the quest for a modern India / Banu Subramaniam
9. What would Rachel say? / Joni Seager
10. Negotiating human -nature boundaries, cultural hierarchies and masculinist paradigms of development studies / Debashish Munshi
11. The intersection of women, culture and development: conversations about visions for the future - take two / Wendy Harcourt

Part III: The Cultural Politics Of Representation
12. Of rural mothers, urban whores and working daughters: women and the critique of neocolonial development in Taiwan's nativist literature / Ming-yan Lai
13. Revisiting the mostaz'af and the mostakbar / Minoo Moallem
14. Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter, `women, culture and development' from a Francophone or postcolonial perspective / Anjali Prabhu
15. The precarious middle class: gender, risk and mobility in the new Indian economy / Raka Ray