The Women, Gender and Development Reader, 2nd edition

Nalini Visvanathan, Lynn Duggan, Nan Wiegersma, and Laurie Nisonoff (eds), Zed books, hardback and paperback, 2011. In this new edition of the definitive 1997 volume, the editors expertly present the impact of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession and climate change. With a multidisciplinary approach, the volume vividly illustrates the theoretical debates with an array of case studies from around the world.