Machine generated contents note: Section I Gender as a Shaping Context -- 1.Gender Development: From Universality to Individuality / Lacey J. Hilliard -- 2.Gender and Achievement Choices / Jacquelynne S. Eccles -- Section II Child Care: An Early Contextual Opportunity -- 3.Women's Work and Child Care: Perspectives and Prospects / Deborah Lowe Vandell -- 4.Issues of Quality and Access Emerging from the Changing Early Childhood Policy Context: Toward the Next Generation of Research / Nina Smith -- Section III Cultural Contexts and Immigrant Families -- 5.An Ecological Approach to Understanding Immigrant Child and Adolescent Developmental Competencies / Cynthia Garcia Coll -- 6.Beyond Families and Schools: Future Directions in Practice and Policy for Children in Immigrant Families / Hirokazu Yoshikawa -- Section IV Child Poverty as a Limiting Context of Development -- 7.Poverty and Children's Development: Familial Processes as Mediating Influences / Cecily R. Hardaway --

Contents note continued: 8.The World Isn't Linear or Additive or Decontextualized: Pluralism and Mixed Methods in Understanding the Effects of Antipoverty Programs on Children and Parenting / Greg J. Duncan -- Section V Schools and Neighborhoods: The Microcosms of Childhood -- 9.Neighborhood and School Contexts in the Lives of Children / Aprile D. Benner -- 10.School- and Neighborhood-Based Interventions to Improve the Lives of Disadvantaged Children / Tama Leventhal -- Section VI Development in the Context of Omnipresent Media -- 11.Children and Electronic Media / Ellen A. Wartella -- 12.Language, Literacy, and Media: What's the Word on Sesame Street? / Jennifer A. Kotler -- Section VII Programs and Policies as Contextual Opportunities for Improving Children's Lives -- 13.Connecting Research and Practice / Brian L. Wilcox.