Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: Introduction - Kamala Ganesh and Carla Risseeuw -- Gendered Change in Marriage and Family: A Policy Concern -- Part One: Overviews -- Changing Kinship, Family and Gender Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa - Els A Baerends -- Trends in Kinship and Gender Relations in South Asia - Leela Dube -- Gender and Kinship Studies - Kamala Ganesh -- Indian Material and Context -- Part Two: Law: Reform And Rigidity -- Civil Law vs the Mand[ac]e Conception of Gendered Personhood - Saskia M A A Brand -- The Case of Bamako, Mali -- Part Three: Education: Contingent Access To New Worlds -- Family Strategies, Gender Ideology and Education - Karuna Charana -- The Impact of Partition on Punjabi Women of New Delhi -- Production and Reproduction of Girlhood in High Schools - Kathinka Kerkhoff -- The State, Family and Schooling in Colonial Calcutta -- Part Four: Women Traders: Free To Negotiate Or Forced To Adjust? -- Female Entrepreneurship in a Changing Environment - Philip J Havik -- Gender, Kinship and Trade in the Guinea Bissau Region -- Structural Adjustment and the Cameroonian Women's Life Line - Joyce B Endeley -- 1986-1995 -- Part Five: Labour And The Job Market: Negotiating Public Space -- Disjunctions and Continuities - Santi Rozario -- Dowry and the Position of Single Women in Bangladesh -- Absent Women and Their Extended Families - Michele Ruth Gamburd -- Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids -- Part Six: Negotiating Between Kith And Kin -- One from the Heart - Karen Willemse with Nawal H Osman and Catrien Bijleveld -- Between Family and Friends in Al-Halla, West Sudan -- Islamisation and Changes in Social Arrangements among the Mafa of North Cameroon - Jos[ac]e C M van Santen.