Women, Land and Power in Asia (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Kelkar, Govind; Krishnaraj, Maithreyi

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is based on feminist responses to farming women's struggle for economic rights and social justice in Asia. Using comprehensive analyses, quantitative and qualitative data, it seeks to provide a greater understanding of the development consequences of women's marginal, limited ownership rights to land and other productive assets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000087819
• Artikelnr.: 60580940

Autorenporträt

Govind Kelkar is Senior Adviser to Landesa India and to International Center for Research on Women, New Delhi and formerly Senior Adviser, Economic Empowerment Program UN Women (United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women), South Asia Sub-Regional Office, New Delhi. Maithreyi Krishnaraj is Honorary Visiting Professor, Institute for Economic and Social Change, Bangalore.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables. List of Figures. List of Boxes. Foreword Anne F.
Stenhammer. Acknowledgements. Introduction Govind Kelkar and Maithreyi
Krishnaraj. Part I. Land Rights for the Farming Women in Asia. 1. Policy
Formulation, Law Reform and Women's Property Rights in South Asia Savitri
Goonesekere 2. Gender Asset Gaps and Land Rights in the Context of the
Asia-Pacific Region Rajini Menon and Preet Rustagi 3. Gender and Productive
Assets: Implications for Women's Economic Security and Productivity Govind
Kelkar. Part II. Farmers' Relationship to Land and Livestock. 4. Women's
Ownership Rights and Access to Land in Bangladesh Sadeka Halim 5. Women's
Land Rights in China: An Unpromising Future Wang Yunxian 6. Gender and
Productive Resources: Nepal's Case of Landownership Ganesh Gurung 7.
Women's Land Use Knowledge and Entitlement in Swidden Agriculture Govind
Kelkar and Lily Wangchuk 8. Rules and Norms in Women's Access to Productive
Resources: Ponds in Bangladesh Dev Nathan and Rownok Jahan 9. Gender and
Livestock in Nagaland Rosemary Dzuvichu 10. Mal Chhe to Mobho Chhe:
Livestock is Dignity for Us Lalji Desai. Part III. Women's Entitlement to
Land and Productive Assets in India. 11. The Status of Indigenous Women and
Land Rights in Jharkhand Samar Bosu Mullick 12. Land, Livestock and the
Rights of Women in Rural India N. C. Saxena 13. Women's Entitlement to Land
and Livestock inMatrilineal Meghalaya Patricia Mukhim 14. Changing Context
of Women's Entitlement to Land in Gujarat Meera Velayudhan 15. Women's
Landownership in Gujarat: What has Worked and What Needs to be Looked At!
Sejal Dave 16. Women and Land Rights in Maharashtra Seema Kulkarni 17.
Resistance and Struggle for Survival: Access, Control and Ownership of Poor
and Dalit Women to Land in Andhra Pradesh V. Rukmini Rao 18. Women's
Entitlements to Land: Grassroots Strategies for Legitimising Claims Nitya
Rao. About the Editors. Notes on Contributors. Index