A field of one's own : Gender and land rights in South Asia
- Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1994
- 572p xv
Table of contents 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.
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1. Women Studies - Philosophy - Rights 2. Land Tenure - South Asia 3. Land reforms - South Asia 4. Women rights - South Asia 5. Rural Women - Conditions - South Asia