"First published 2003 as Journal of Agrarian Change Special issue 3( 1&2), by Blackwell Publishing."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global capitalism, deflation and agrarian crisis in developing count ries / Utsa Patnaik -- Policy discourses on women's land rights in Sub- Saharan Africa : the implications of the return to the customary / Anne Whitehead and Dzodzi Tsikata -- Piety in the sky? : gender policy and land reform in South Africa / Cherryl Walker -- Securing women's intere sts within land tenure reforms : recent debates in Tanzania / Dzodzi Ts ikata -- Gender and land rights revisited : exploring new prospects via the state, family and market / Bina Agarwal -- The cry for land : agra rian reform, gender and land rights in Uzbekistan / Deniz Kandiyoti -- Women's land rights and rural social movements in the Brazilian agraria n reform / Carmen Diana Deere.