Foreword / Josefa Francisco -- Social contracts revisited: the promise of human rights / Gita Sen and Marina Durano -- Financialization, distribution and inequality / Stephanie Seguino -- New poles of accumulation and realignment of power in the twenty-first century / Yao Graham and Hibist Wendemu Kassa -- The modern business of war / Oscar Ugarteche -- The convergences and divergences of human rights and political economy / Aldo Caliari -- Climate non-negotiables / Anita Nayar -- Geoengineering: a gender issue? / Diana Bronson -- Land grabs, food security and climate justice: a focus on sub-Saharan Africa / Zo Randriamaro -- Negotiating sexual and reproductive health and rights at the UN: a long and winding road / Alexandra Garita and Françoise Girard -- The making of a secular contract / Fatou Sow and Magaly Pazello -- Sexuality as a weapon of biopolitics: rethinking Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill / Rosalind P. Petchesky -- The state of states / Claire Slatter -- Religious fundamentalism and secular governance / Amrita Chhachhi -- Reframing peace and security for women / Kumudini Samuel -- Feminist activisms for new global contracts amidst civil indignation / Josefa Francisco and Peggy Antrobus.

A staggering line up of gender and development's leading scholars.