Different places, different voices : gender and development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America / edited by Janet Henshall Momsen and Vivian Kinnaird.

´Consists of selected papers given at the Commonwealth Geographical Bureau Workshop held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in April, 1989´--Pref.

Incluye bibliografía (p. 297-316).

Gender and geography in Latin America: a historical perspective / Janet Momsen -- Women and geography in Brazil / Sonia Alves Salio -- The role of women´s organisations and groups in community development: a case study of Bolivia / Jane Benton -- Deconstructing the household: women´s roles under commodity relations in Highland Bolivia / Colin Sage -- Women´s roles in colonisation: a Colombian case study / Donny Meertens -- Housewifisation and colonisation in the Colombian rainforest / Janet Townsend -- The role of gender in peasant migration: conceptual issues from the Peruvian Andes / Sarah Radcliffe.

Geography, gender and development / Vivian Kinnaird and Janet Momsen -- Gender and geography in Africa / Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf -- Household energy supply and women´s work in Ghana / Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf -- Women´s role and participation in farm and community tree-growing activities in Kiambu District, Kenya / B. Hyma and Perez Nyamwange -- Agricultural production and women´s time budgets in Uganda / Victoria M. Mwaka -- The impact of labour-saving devices on the lives of rural African women: grain mills in the Gambia / Hazel Barrett and Angela Browne -- The impact of contraceptive use among urban traders in Nigeria: Ibadan traders and modernisation / B. Folasade Iyun and E.A. Oke -- Women and gender in geography: an overview from South Asia / Saraswati Raju -- Gender relations in rural Bangladesh: aspects of differential norms about fertility, mortality and health practices / K. Maudood Elahi --^

Seasonality, wage labor and women´s contribution to household income in western India / Elizabeth Oughton -- Invisible female agricultural labour in India / Parvati Raghuram -- Assessing rural development programmes in India from a gender perspective / Rameswari Varma -- Access of female plantation workers in Sri Lanka to basic-needs provision / Vidyamali Samarasinghe -- Women as agents and beneficiaries of rural housing programmes in Sri Lanka / Yoga Rasanayagam -- Women´s roles in rural Sri Lanka / Anoja Wickramasinghe -- Gender and geography in South-East Asia and Oceania: a regional overview / Janet Momsen with Nancy Davis Lewis -- Feminist geography in Taiwan and Hong Kong / Nora Chiang -- Gender and the quality of life of households in raft-houses, Temerloh, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia / Asmah Ahmad -- Development and factory women: negative perceptions from a Malaysian source area / Amriah Buang -- Women and agriculture in Western Samoa / Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop --^