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Tables of Contents for Women in the Age of Economic Transformation
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures and tables
ix
Contributors
xii
Women and economic transformation
1
10
Nahid Aslanbeigui
Steven Pressman
Gale Summerfield
Part I Eastern Europe
Beyond socialism: The uncertain prospects for East German women in a unified Germany
11
16
Hedwig Rudolph
Eileen Appelbaum
Friederike Maier
The status of women and Poland's transition to a market economy
27
16
Bozena Leven
The economic status of women in Romania
43
16
Walter M. Bacon, Jr.
Louis G. Pol
The effect of economic and political reforms on Soviet/Russian women
59
18
Patrice C. McMahon
Part II Less developed countries
Africa
The impact of economic reforms on women's health and health care in Sub-Saharan Africa
77
18
Meredeth Turshen
Structural adjustment, the rural-urban interface and gender relations in Zambia
95
18
Gisela Geisler
Karen Tranberg Hansen
Asia
Chinese women and the post-Mao economic reforms
113
16
Gale Summerfield
Economic restructuring in Singapore and the changing roles of women, 1957 to present
129
16
Jean L. Pyle
Government reforms, economic restructuring and the employment of women: South Korea, 1980-92
145
15
Scott M. Fuess, Jr.
Bun Song Lee
Latin America
Neoliberal economic reforms and women in Chile
160
18
Veronica Montecinos
The 1982 reforms and the employment conditions of Mexican women
178
14
Richard P.F. Holt
State policy and the restructuring of women's industries in Nicaragua
192
14
Nan Wiegersma
Bibliography
206
20
Index
226