Contents

Pnina Motzafi-Haller and Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder

Introduction: Gendering development, developing gender: The politics of contemporary gendered analysis of development

Masooda Bano

Empowering women: More than one way?

Kimberly Hart

Conflicts and conundrums in a women’s cooperative in western Turkey

Esther Hertzog

Who needs literacy programs for women in rural Nepal?

Ronnie Halevy

Looking ahead: Educated Bedouin women redefining identity and belonging

Iris Levin and Rachel Kallus

Housing and change: Women and progress in Givat Faradis

Rosalind Fredericks

Wearing the pants: The gendered politics of trashwork in Senegal’s capital city

C. X. George Wei and Yunyu Wang

From cultural nationalism to transnational and personal arts: The role of dancers and women in the reconstruction of the Taiwanese identity

Anne Coles

Domestic water provision and gender roles in drylands

Voices from the field

Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder

Cultural and gender-sensitive community development: Interview of Amal Elsana Alhjooj, director of AJEEC

Mirit Sidi

The Women’s Courtyard: A critical feminist practice for work with young women in Jaffa

Book reviews

Shani Bar-On

Deborah Bernstein, Women on the Margins: Gender and Nationalism in Mandate Tel Aviv

Ibtisam Ibrahim

Shirin M. Rai, Gender and the Political Economy of Development: Essays in Hope and Despair

Catherine Lloyd

Lyla Mehta, Displaced by Development: Confronting Marginalization and Gender Injustice

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