This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development. This title questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into 'gender myths' and 'feminist...

The participation of women in agriculture and the role of women in society in the preindustrial period were remarkably different across ethnicities and strongly related to the type of agricultural technology adopted historically. The sexual division of labor was broadly associated to two...