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Contributed articles on socio-economic status of rural women in India.

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China's countryside is being transformed by rapid, far-reaching development. This wide-reaching and multidisciplinary book questions whether gender politics are

The failure to include gender in the economic history of rural development has severely limited our understanding of privatizing, collectivist and colonial econ