Bina Agarwal, Agarwal Bina

A Field of One's Own

Gender and Land Rights in South Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of gender and property throughout South Asia which argues that the most important economic factor affecting women is the gender gap in command over property.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 596
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 955g
• ISBN-13: 9780521429269
• ISBN-10: 0521429269
• Artikelnr.: 21357318

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
l. Land rights for women: making the case
2. Conceptualizing gender relations
3. Customary rights and associated practices
4. Erosion and disinheritance: traditionally matrilineal and bilateral communities today
5. Contemporary law: contestation and content
6. Whose share? Who claims? The gap between law and practice
7. Whose land? Who commands? The gap between ownership and control
8. Tracing cross-regional diversities
9. Struggles over resources, struggles over meanings
l0. The long march ahead.