Books by Shirin M. Rai

Provides a comprehensive assessment of how gender politics has emerged and developed in post-colonial states. This book argues that the gendered way in which nationalist statebuilding occured created deep fissures and pressures for development.

* A comprehensive introduction to the impact of development on men and women, and of their differing contributions to politics and economics * Offers a new theoretical account of gender and development * Sets out new challenges for womena s movements in the light of globalization.