Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Looking at key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism, the authors demonstrate that gender is an indispensable tool for social change.

Agnès Adjambago, Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France
Sonia E. Alvarez, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University, USA
Blandine Destremau, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Christine Catarino, independent scholar
Jules Falquet, Université Paris Diderot, France
Isabel Cristina Jaramillo, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Bruno Lautier, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Thérèse Locoh, French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), France
Miriam Nobre, Women International and University of São-Paulo, Brazil
Olasunbo Odebode, UNICEF Abuja, Nigeria
Laura Oso, University of La Coruña, Spain
Elisabeth Prügl, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland
Fenneke Reysoo, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland
Irene van Staveren, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Introduction: Gender, a Necessary Tool of Analysis for Social Change; Isabelle Guérin, Hélène Guétat-Bernard and Christine Verschuur PART I: DISCIPLINES 1. A History of Development through a Gender Prism. Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives; Christine Verschuur 2. Feminist Anthropology Meets Development; Fenneke Reysoo 3. Gender and Demography. A Fertile Combination; Agnès Adjamagbo and Thérèse Locoh 4. The sociologist and the 'poor Third World woman', or how an approach focusing on gender relations has helped sociology of development; Blandine Destremau and Bruno Lautier 5. Feminist Development Economics an Institutional Approach to Household Analysis; Irene van Staveren and Olasunbo Odebode 6. Feminist Legal Theory as an Intervention in Development Debates; Isabel Cristina Jaramillo 7. Feminist Interventions in International Relations; Elisabeth Prügl PART II: SPECIFIC ISSUES 8. Labour, family and agriculture: gender and development issues, a North-South perspective; Hélène Guétat-Bernard 9. Revisiting the Migration/Development Nexus from a Gender Perspective. Articulating Production and Reproduction; Christine Catarino and Laura Oso 10. Ambivalent Engagements, Paradoxical Effects: Latin American Feminist and Women's Movements and/in/against Development; Sonia E. Alvarez 11. Neoliberal Capitalism: an Ally for Women? Materialist and Imbricationist Feminist Perspectives; Jules Falquet 12. Neoliberalism and the Global Economic Crisis: a View from Feminist Economics; Lourdes Beneria 13. The solidarity economy revisited in the light of gender: a tool for social change or reproducing the subordination of women?; Isabelle Guérin and Mariam Nobre 14. Conclusion. Body politics and the making and unmaking of gender and development; Wendy Harcourt