1. An introduction to women, culture and development / Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Priya A. Jurian
I: Sexuality and the gendered body
2. "Tragedies' in out-of-the-way places: oceanic interpretations of another scale / Yvonne Underhill-Sem
3. Queering development: institutionalized heterosexuality in development theory, practice and politics in Latin America / Amy Lind and Jessica Share
4. Claiming the state: women's reproductive identity and Indian development / Rachel Simon Kumar
5. Bodies and choices: African matriarchs and mammy water / Ifi Amadiume
II: Environment, technology, science
6. Managing future(s): culture, development, gender and the dystopic continuum / David McKie
7. Negotiating human-nature boundaries, cultural hierarchies and masculinist paradigms of development studies / Priya A. Kurian and Debashish Munshi
8. Imagining India: religious nationalism in the age of science and development / Banu Subramaniam
III: The cultural politics of representation
9. Of rural mothers, urban whores and working daughters: women and the critique of neocolonial development in Taiwan's nativist literature / Ming-yan Lai
10. The representation of the Mostaz'af/ 'the disempowered' in revolutionary and Post-revolutionary Iran / Minoo Maollem
11. Mariama Bâ's lo long a letter: women, culture and development from a Francophone/post-colonial perspective / Anjali Prabhu.