Women, state, and ideology : [electronic resource] studies from Africa and Asia / Haleh Afshar, editor.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Women and the state in Nigeria / Carolyne Dennis -- Women in Zimbabwe / Susie M. Jacobs and Tracey Howard -- The state and the regulation of marriage / Penelope A. Roberts -- Women, marriage, and the state in Iran / Haleh Afshar -- Family and state in Malaysian industrialisation / Maila Stivens -- Gender and population in the People's Republic of China / Delia Davin -- Some state responses to male and female need in British India / Jocelyn Kynch -- Contaminating states / Patricia Margaret Jeffery, Roger Jeffery, and Andrew Lyon -- Women and handicraft production in North India / Ann Weston -- Front and rear, the sexual division of labour in the Israeli Army / Nira Yuval-Davis -- Controlling women's access to political power / Carole Wolkowitz -- State, culture, and gender / Christine Pelzer-White.