Women and Property

Women as Property
Herausgeber: Hirschon, Renee

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1984, Women and Property studies the idea of wealth and property in relation to women in diverse countries. It attempts a definition of the term 'property' itself and goes on to look at the relationships and rights associated with these various kinds of property.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781032537856
• ISBN-10: 103253785X
• Artikelnr.: 68100516

Autorenporträt

Renee Hirschon

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction: Property, Power and Gender Relations 2. Cognatic
Descent, Islamic Law and Women's Property on the East African Coast 3. The
Exchange of Women and Property: Marriage in Post-Revolutionary China 4.
Dowry in North India: Its Consequences for Women 5. Female Power and the
Inequality of Wealth and Motherhood in North-western Portugal 6. The Legal
and Social Transformation of Rural Women in Aegean Turkey 7. Divorce and
the Disadvantaged: African Women in Urban South Africa 8. 'Fear Women':
Property and Modes of Production in Urban Ghana 9. Subject or Object? Women
and the Circulation of Valuables in Highlands New Guinea 10. Men and Women,
Kinship and Property: Some General Issues Bibliography Contributors Index