Table of Contents
African Women Hoe Cultivators: Speculative Origins and Current Enigmas, D. F. Bryceson; Women's Farming and Present Ethnography: Perspectives on a Nigerian Restudy, J. Guyer; Down to Fundamentals: Women-Centred Hearth-holds in Rural West Africa, F. Ekejiuba; The Myth of the African Family in the World of Development, B. O'Laughlin; Uses and Abuses of the Concept of 'Female-Headed Households' in Research on Agrarian Transformation and Policy, P. Peters; Women's Workload and Reproductive Stress, H. Bantje; 'Children are Our Wealth': A Difficult Pregnancy on Mafia Island, Tanzania, P. Caplan; Mothers, Healers and Farmers in Congo, M. C. Dupre; What Women Can Do: AIDS Crisis Management in Uganda, C. Obbo; Must Women Work Together? Development Agency Assumptions v. Changing Relations of Production in Southern Malawi Households, J. Davison; Wishful Thinking: Theory and Practice of Western Donor Efforts to Raise Women's Status in Rural Africa, D. Bryceson; Documenting Women's Views through Participatory Research: Diaries of Daily Activities in Rural Zambia, E. Skjonsberg; Truth in Fantasy: Storytelling with and about Women in Msoga Village, Tanzania, U. Vuorela; Burying the Hoe?, D. Bryceson.