Subject(s): Poverty -- Women's Health -- Economic history -- Rural women -- Social conditions -- Health and Education -- Theoretical perspective : Theorizing structures without gender, structural theorizations with a gender analysis, household strategy models, agrarian political economy, ecofeminism, towards an approach incorporating culture, women's experiences and agency, cultural and political economy of everyday life -- Research approach : Time and activity studies, meetings with bureaucrats and use of archives... -- Capitalist transformation in Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh- Socio-economic profile, forests of Himachal Pradesh, social forestry -- Local environment and lived experience- stories and voices of Nirmala, kalabiti and Shanti : Villages of Ichasser and dev nagar -- Environment and women's work : Couple of days in kalabiti's life, impact of environment on women's daily work, importance of water, centrality of forests, women and their relationship to the market -- Women's health and education : Environment, poverty and women's health, reproductive health, impact of modern medicine, education and literacy -- Culture, subjectivity and resistance : Tradition, modernity and social and personal resistance, marriage and relationships, violence and alcohol, women's community as site of resistance -- women & society