This volume bring together influential contemporary research and discussion papers from Indian Ocean scholars to explore the issue of women's economic empowerment in the Indian Ocean rim. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region.

1. Foreword 2. The future of women's economic empowerment in the Indian Ocean region: governance challenges and opportunities 3. Opportunities and challenges faced by women involved in informal cross-border trade in the city of Mutare during a prolonged economic crisis in Zimbabwe 4. Recognizing Indonesian fisherwomen's roles in fishery resource management: profile, policy, and strategy for economic empowerment 5. The 'Barefoot Model' of economic empowerment in rural Rajasthan 6. Protecting Indonesia's women migrant workers from the grassroots: a story of Paguyuban Seruni 7. Sega as voice-work in the Indian Ocean region 8. Women's economic empowerment in the Indian Ocean region through gender equality in work: building a common agenda 9. Women's empowerment in the global South

Timothy Doyle is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Adelaide in Australia, where he teaches Global Environmental Politics, International Political Economy and Political Fiction. He is Chair of Politics and International Relations at Keele University in the United Kingdom. Professor Doyle is also Distinguished Research Fellow at the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI), Curtin University, Western Australia.

Adela Alfonsi is Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She is Commissioning Editor of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region (Taylor & Francis).