Product Description: What accounts for the oft-noted 'gap' between well-designed policies for women and their inadequate implementation? Why do such policies often fail to benefit the poorest women? How do policies address the intersecting inequalities of gender, class, caste, ethnic identity and race? What are the conditions under which policy may have transformative potential for poor women? This book answers these questions and many more...read more

Product Description: Most of the essays in this collection have emerged in the context of a renewed national debate about the politics of caste inaugurated by the Mandal decision in 1989--a decision that has renewed demands for social justice by dalits and lower-castes...read more

Product Description: This book examines female-headed households (FHHs) in the world economy, aspects of their poverty, and the implications of those for sustainable development. Following a general discussion of FHHs in the world community, the work discusses FHHs in two regions of India, one being an example of unsuccesssful development and the other of successful development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text examines the difficulties that were faced by an Indian NGO (non-government organization) in promoting income-generating activities for the poorest rural women. It is an account of what happened with GVA, a Gujarrati Voluntary Agency, which introduced such projects for women living in two villages near Ahmedabad...read more