Introduction / Shamim Meer -- Women and tenure : marginality and the left-hand power / Catherine Cross and Michelle Friedman -- Access to land : a rural perspective on tradition and resources / Lisa Thorp -- Women's land rights : a case study from the northern Transvaal / Janet Small -- Cornfields, gender and land / Cherryl Walker -- Women's land rights and needs : the case of Thornhill and Merino Walk / Sue Middleton -- Women, tenure and land reform : the case of Namaqualand's reserves / Fiona Archer and Shamim Meer -- Women on Highveld farms : an outlook for development / Linda Waldman and Mampe Ntsedi -- Western Cape fruit and wine farms: land, labour and housing tenure / Sandra Hill-Lanz and Kathy O'Grady -- Evicted farm workers and gender in the small town of Aberdeen / Bronwyn James and Sibongile Ngcobo.