Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:-Introduction / Christina H. Gladwin -- Structural adjustment and structural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa / Stephen O'Brien -- Women, structural adjustment and transformation : some lessons and questions from the African experience / Uma Lele --Getting priorities right : structural transformation and strategic notions / Bruce F. Johnston -- Policies to overcome the negative effects of structural adjustment programs on African female-headed households / Jean M. Due -- The impact of structural adjustment programs on women and their households in Bendel and Ogun States, Nigeria / Patience Elabor-Idemudia -- Women and structural adjustment in Zaire / Brooke Schoepf ... [et al.] -- The impact of structural adjustment programs in rural women in Tanzania / Ruth Meena -- Fertilizer subsidy removal programs and their potential impacts on women farmers in Malawi and Cameroon / Christina H. Gladwin -- Women traders in Ghana and the structural adjustment program / Gracia Clark and Takyiwaa Manuh -- The ideology and political economy of gender : women and land in Nso, Cameroon / Miriam Goheen -- Women's agricultural work in a multimodal rural economy : Ibarapa District, Oyo State, Nigeria / Jane I. Goyer with Olukemi Idowu -- Structural transformation and its consequences for Orma women pastoralists / Jean Ensminger -- Debate on the economy of affection : is it a usefool tool for gender analysis? / Goran Hyden and Pauline E. Peters -- New women's organizations in Nigeria : one response to structural adjustment / Lillian Trager and Clara Osinulu -- The role of home economics agents in rural development programs in Northern Nigeria : impacts of structural adjustment / Comfort B. Olayiwole -- Curriculum planning for women and agricultural households : the case of Cameroon / Suzanna Smith and Barbara Taylor -- Women farmers, structural adjustment, and FAO's Plan for Action for Integration of Women in Development / Anita Spring and Vicki Wilde.