This book advances contemporary debates on the evolution of patriarchal institutions in agrarian transitions and the struggles for women's liberation today. It focuses on the complexities of agrarian transitions in the Global South and the crisis of social reproduction especially under neoliberalism. It sheds new light on feminist struggles over land, labour, and social reproduction, and enriches our understanding of popular movements and women's struggles for emancipation across the rural-urban divide. The chapters offer empirical and theoretical contributions on gender relations in class formation in combination with race, caste and other contradictions. They critically examine the participation of women and the role of women’s leadership in historical and contemporary struggles, including anti-racist, anti-caste, and anti-imperialist struggles.

Paris Yeros (Edited by) is Professor in the faculties of Economic Sciences, Sciences and Humanities, and World Political Economy at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), São Paulo, Brazil. He is also one of the editors of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. His current research interests include agrarian and labour questions in Africa and Latin America, gender relations, and world development.Dzodzi Tsikata (Edited by) is a feminist scholar activist, currently Distinguished Research Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Her work in the last thirty years has been in the areas of the land and labour relations of agrarian and urban informal economies, and gender and development policies and practices in Africa. She is the managing editor of the Feminist Africa Journal and one of the editors of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy.Archana Pasad (Edited by) is Professor of History at Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She is also one of the editors of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. Her current research is focused on the gendered dimensions of the political economy of agrarian transitions and resistance; social reproduction and the gendered division of labour; and the interface between ecological transformations and capitalist accumulation.