In this groundbreaking collection of diverse perspectives, feminist thinkers explore whether Third World women ought to continue along the path of development or abandon full-scale modernization and seek post-development alternatives instead. It represents the first attempt to ascertain the possibilities, and limitations, of the post-development path for women. CONTENTS Introduction: Towards a Deconstructive Post-Development Criticism / Kriemild Saunders Part I: Aiding Development • Lessons from the Field: Rethinking Empowerment, Gender and Development in a Post (Post?) Development Perspective / Jane Parpart • Dismantling the Master's House with the Master's Tools? Gender Work in and with Powerful Bureaucracies / Kathleen Staudt • Trails of Turquoise: Feminist Enquiry and Counter-development in Ladakh, India / Ravina Aggarwal Part II: Locating Women/Locating Work • Countergeographies of Globalization: Feminization of Survival / Saskia Sassen • Engendering Globalization in an Era of Transnational Capital: New Cross-Border Alliances and Strategies of Resistance in a Post-NAFTA Mexico / Marianne Marchand Part III: More Worldly Feminisms • Development: Feminist Theory's Cul-de-Sac / Marnia Lazreg • Picture more at Variance, of Desires and Development in the People's Republic of China / Tani Barlow • Developmentalist Feminism and Neocolonialism in the Andean Communities / Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Loyda Sanchez Part IV: The Science Question in Development • Mad Cows and Sacred Cows / Vandana Shiva • Global Circulations: Nature, Culture and the Possibility of Sustainable Development / Banu Subramaniam, James Bever and Peggy Schulz • Do the Marginalized Valorize the Margins? Exploring the Dangers of Difference / Meera Nanda Part V: Stories From the Field: Theorizing Action/Acting on Theory • Participatory Research: A Tool in the Production of Knowledge in the Development Discourse / Patience Elabor-Idemudia • Ethnographic Acts: Writing Women and Other Political Fields / Piya Chatterjee • Practising Theory through Women's Bodies: Public Violence and Women Strategies of Power and Place / Ramona Perez Part VI: Other Bodies • Body Politics: Revisiting the Population Question / Wendy Harcourt • Reproductive Technology: From a Third World Feminist Perspective / Esther Wangari • Gender, Bodies and Cosmos in Mesoamerica / Sylvia Marcos