Papers presented at a panel discussion of the Regional Conference for Asia on Women and the Household, New Delhi, 1985.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Blueprint for undernourishment : the Mahaweli River Development Scheme in Sri Lanka / Joke Schrijvers -- Primary but subordinated : changing class and gender relations in rural Malaysia / Cecilia Ng and Maznah Mohamed -- Neither sustenance nor sustainability : agricultural strategies, ecological degradation and Indian women in poverty / Bina Agarwal -- Two steps back? : new agricultural policies in China and the woman question / Govind Kelkar -- Hidden wounds, visible scars & violence against women in Bangladesh / Roushan Jahan -- Behind the veil : the public and private faces of Khomeini's policies on Iranian women / Halef Afshar