عنوان

A field of one's own :

(Number (ISBN

0521418682

(Number (ISBN

0521429269

(Number (ISBN

0521429269

(Number (ISBN

9780521418683

(Number (ISBN

9780521429269

(Number (ISBN

9780521429269

Number

b753082

Title Proper

A field of one's own :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

gender and land rights in South Asia /

First Statement of Responsibility

Bina Agarwal.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY, USA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1994.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxi, 572 pages :

Other Physical Details

maps ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

Cambridge South Asian studies

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 510-552) and index.

Text of Note

1. Land rights for women: making the case. I. The backdrop. II. Gender, property, and land: some conceptual links. III. Why do women need independent rights in land? IV. Questions addressed, information base, and the book's structure -- 2. Conceptualizing gender relations. I. Gender relations within the household/family. II. Gender relations outside the household/family: the market, the community, and the State. III. Interactions: the household/family: the community, and the State -- 3. Customary rights and associated practices. I. Which communities customarily recognized women's rights in land? II. Women's land rights in traditionally matrilineal and bilateral communities. III. Women's land rights, structural conditionalities, and gender relations -- 4. Erosion and disinheritance: traditionally matrilineal and bilateral communities. I. India. II. Sri Lanka -- 5. Contemporary laws: contestation and content. I. India. II. Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Muslims in India. III. Sri Lanka. IV. Nepal. V. Summary comments on women's legal rights in landed property in South Asia -- 6. Whose share? Who claims? The gap between law and practice. I. The gap between law and practice in traditionally patrilineal communities. II. Barriers to women inheriting land in traditionally patrilineal communities. III. Glimmer of change: women claim inheritance shares in some traditionally patrilineal communities. IV. A look at traditionally matrilineal and bilateral communities.

Text of Note

V. Some hypotheses -- 7. Whose land? Who commands? The gap between ownership and control. I. Women's ability to retain their land. II. Control over the transfer and use of land. III. Barriers to women self-managing land -- 8. Tracing cross-regional diversities. I. Some hypotheses. II. Information sources. III. The cross-regional patterns. IV. An overview of regional patterns -- 9. Struggles over resources, struggles over meanings. I. On women's consciousness and individual resistance. II. Group resistance: struggles over privatized land. III. Group resistance: claiming rights in public land. IV. Further observations on gender construction and group contestation -- 10. The long march ahead. I. Recapitulation. II. Some suggestions, some dilemmas. III. The macro-scenario.

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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.

International Standard Book Number

0521429269

Börngen, ...

Land reform-- South Asia.

Land tenure-- South Asia.

Right of property-- South Asia.

Rural women-- South Asia.

Women's rights-- South Asia.

Land reform-- South Asia.

Right of property-- South Asia.

Women's rights-- South Asia.

Rural women-- South Asia.

Droit de propriété-- Asie méridionale.

Femmes-- Droits-- Asie méridionale.

Femmes en milieu rural-- Asie méridionale.

Réforme agraire-- Asie méridionale.

Seigneuries-- Asie méridionale.

73.45 sexes and their interrelations (ethnology)

86.20 civil law: general.

Anthropology.

Frau.

Gender.

Geschlechterrolle

Grundeigentum

Human rights.

Land ownership.

Land reform-- South Asia.

Land reform.

Land tenure-- South Asia.

Land tenure.

Landhervormingen.

Landrechten.

Propriété-- Asie du Sud.

Propriété foncière-- Asie du Sud.

Reform.

Réforme agraire-- Asie du Sud.

Right of property-- South Asia.

Right of property.

Rural women-- South Asia.

Rural women.

Social policy.

Social policy.

South Asia.

Status of women-- South Asia.

Tenure types, Traditional-- South Asia.

Vrouwen.

Women.

Women's rights-- South Asia.

Women's rights.

South Asia, Social policy.

Asia, Southeastern, Social policy.

Asie méridionale, Politique sociale.

Asie du Sud, Politique sociale.

Indien, Süd

South Asia, Social policy.

South Asia.

Südasien

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E500

Number

330.22054

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Edition

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Agarwal, Bina.

Date of Transaction

20201204123903.0

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[Book]

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