Ann R. Tickamyer is a professor of rural sociology and head of the Depart-ment of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of numerous publications on rural pov-erty, inequality, gender, work, and development. Siti Kusujiarti is a professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Warren Wilson College, Asheville, North Carolina. She has done extensive research and teaching on gender relations, disaster, and social change in Indonesia and other countries. She is the author of numerous publications on rural poverty, inequality, gender, work, and development.