Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; H.Afshar - Empowerment in the Discourse and Practice of Development; J.Rowland - Fruit of Burden: The Organisation of Women Temporary Workers in Chilean Agribusiness; S.Barrientos - Gender Aspects of the Rural Urban Migration in China; D.Davin - The Grameen Bank Experiment: Empowerment of Women through Credit; L.N.Khan Osmani - Gender Relations and the Democratisation to Local Politics in the Transition to Democracy in Brazil and Chile; F.Macaulay - The Syrian Woman: Reality and Aspiration; L.Djabari - 'Disempowerment' and the Politics of Civil Liberties for Iranian Women; H.Afshar - Violence in Intimate Relationships: an Indian Case Study; P.Sen - Engendering Conflict Analysis; D.Pankhurst & J.Pearce - Women Dying, Women Working: Disempowerment in British India; J.Kynch & M.Sibbons - Women, Gender and Impact Assessment; E.Dawson - Index