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The topics that are so enthusiastically brought up in this book, Gender, Development, and Globalization, are all topics that have been discussed to great lengths by many others authors; however, Benería takes a unique approach to trying to unify these ideas into one definitive issue. Beneria sees this as a definitive time in all of these issues because of the great changes occurring in each field, and even more so because of the blending of these issues. Having served as the coordinator of the International Labour Organization?s Programme on Rural Women and having been an economics professor at Rutgers University, Beneria comes from a very relevant and important point of view in which she has seen all sides of these many complicated issues. In the first half of the book, Beneria looks at the issues facing the individual concepts of gender, development, and globalization. While Beneria admits that most of this is simply reiteration of previous books and papers, she takes this opportunity to introduce ideas that economists, or feminists, or social workers would know about their issues and share them with the others; however, remember this is written by an economist, so many conclusions from the other fields are drawn up in r