Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gender myths that instrumentalise women : a view from the Indian frontline / Srilatha Batliwala and Deepa Dhanraj -- Dangerous equations? : how female-headed households became the poorest of the poor : causes, consequences and cautions / Sylvia Chant -- Back to women? translations, re-significations, and myths of gender in policy and practice in Brazil / Cecilia Sardenberg -- Battles over booklets : gender myths in the British aid programme / Rosalind Eyben -- Not very poor, powerless or pregnant : the African woman forgotten by development / Everjoice Win -- 'Streetwalkers show the way' : reframing the debate on trafficking from sex workers' perspective / Nandinee Bandyopadhyay with Swapna Gayen ... [et al.] -- Gender, myth and fable : the perils of mainstreaming in sector bureaucracies / Hilary Standing -- Making sense of gender in shifting institutional contexts : some reflections on gender mainstreaming / Ramya Subrahmanian -- Gender mainstreaming : what is it (about) and should we continue doing it? / Prudence Woodford-Berger -- Mainstreaming gender or 'streaming' gender away : feminists marooned in the development business / Maitrayee Mukhopadhay -- Critical connections : feminist studies in African contexts / Amina Mama -- SWApping gender : from cross-cutting obscurity to sectoral security? / Anne Marie Goetz and Joanne Sandler -- NGO-ization of Arab Women's Movements / Islah Jad -- Political fiction meets gender myth : post-conflict reconstruction, 'democratisation' and women's rights / Deniz Kandiyoti -- Re-assessing paid work and women's empowerment : lessons from the global economy / Ruth Pearson -- Announcing a new dawn prematurely? human rights feminists and the rights based approaches to development / Dzodzi Tsikata -- Chimera of success : gender ennui and the changed international policy environment / Maxine Molyneux.