Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editor and Contributors
Glossary
Introduction
Haleh Afshar
PART I: WOMEN AND THE STATE
1. Women and the State in Nigeria: the Case of the Federal Military Government, 1984-5
Carolyne Dennis
2. Women in Zimbawe: Stated Policy and State Action
Susie M. Jacobs and Tracey Howard
3. The State and the Regulation of Marriage: Sefwi Wiawso (Ghana) 1900-40
Penelope A. Roberts
4. Women, Marriage and the State in Iran
Haleh Afshar
PART II: STATE AND POPULATION POLICIES
5. Family and State in Malaysian Industrialisation: the Case of Rembau, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Maila Stivens
6. Gender and Population in the People's Republic of China
Delia Davin
7. Some State Responses to Male and Female Need in British India
Jocelyn Kynch
8. Contaminating States: Midwifery, Childbearing and the State in Rural North India
Patricia Margaret Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Adrew Lyon
PART III: IDEOLOGIES, WOMEN AND THE LABOUR MARKET
9. Women and Handicraft Production in North India
Ann Weston
10. Front and Rear: the Sexual Division of Labour in the Israeli Army
Nira Yuval-Davis
11. Controlling Women's Access to Political Power: a Case Study in Andhra Pradesh, India
Carol Wolkowitz
12. State, Culture and Gender: Continuity and Change in Women's Position in Rural Vietnam
Christine Pelzer-White
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