Contents: Introduction to women's studies: Theory: Unessential women: A discussion of race, class, and gender and their implications in education -- Lexicon of debates -- Feminism challenges and the academic disciplines: Illiteracy and alienation in American colleges: Is Paulo Fiere's pedagogy relevant? -- Confronting class in the classroom -- The master's tool will never dismantle the master's house -- The impoverishment of the environment: Women and children last -- Women, development, and the market economy -- Stabilization/structural adjustment/restructuring: Canadian feminist issues in a global framework -- Theoretical transformations: Black women shaping feminist theory -- Under western eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses -- Ecofeminism and the iceberg model of capitalist patriarchal economics -- Redefining the spaces of women and society: People or population: Towards a new ecology of reproduction -- Towards psycho-social transformation -- 36 steps toward a gift economy -- introduction from the subsistence economy -- The history of the subsistence approach.