Anu Pillay Editor

Meredeth Turshen teaches gender and development and third world social policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. She has published widely on health, public policy and women's issues and is political co-chair of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars. Anu Pillay is a gender and development practitioner and winner of South Africa's Ma Afrika award in 1996 for her contribution to women's education and activism. Sheila Meintjes is a senior lecturer in political studies, and co-ordinator of the Gender Studies Programme in the Graduate School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of the Witswatersrand, South Africa