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Owning Land, Being Women

Author : Amrita Mondal
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110690535
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Owning Land, Being Women written by Amrita Mondal and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owning Land, Being Women enquires into the processes that establish inheritance as a unique form of property relation in law and society. It focuses on India, examining the legislative processes that led to the 2005 amendment of the Hindu Succession Act 1956, along with several interconnected welfare policies. Scholars have understood these Acts as a response to growing concerns about women’s property rights in developing countries. In re-reading these Acts and exploring the wider nexus of Indian society in which the legislation was drafted, this study considers how questions of family structure and property rights contribute to the creation of legal subjects and demonstrates the significance of the politico-economic context of rights formulation. On the basis of an ethnography of a village in West Bengal, this book brings the moral axis of inheritance into sharp focus, elucidating the interwoven dynamics of bequest, distribution of family wealth and reciprocity of care work that are integral to the logic of inheritance. It explains why inheritance rights based on the notion of individual property rights are inadequate to account for practices of inheritance. Mondal shows that inheritance includes normative structures of affective attachment and expectations, i.e., evaluatively-charged imaginaries of the future that coordinate present practices. These insights pose questions of the dominant resource-based conceptualisation of inherited property in the debate on women’s empowerment. In doing so, this work opens up a line of investigation that brings feminist rights discourse into conversation with ethics, enriching the liberal theory of gender justice.

A Field of One's Own

Author : Bina Agarwal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521429269
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book A Field of One's Own written by Bina Agarwal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Women, Power, and Property

Author : Rachel E. Brulé
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108870600
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Power, and Property by : Rachel E. Brulé

Download or read book Women, Power, and Property written by Rachel E. Brulé and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this question within the context of India, the world's largest democracy. Brulé employs a research design that maximizes causal inference alongside extensive field research to explain the relationship between political representation, backlash, and economic empowerment. Her findings show that women in government – gatekeepers – catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to property. Women in politics have the power to support constituent rights at critical junctures, such as marriage negotiations, when they can strike integrative solutions to intrahousehold bargaining. Yet there is a paradox: quotas are essential for enforcement of rights, but they generate backlash against women who gain rights without bargaining leverage. In this groundbreaking study, Brulé shows how well-designed quotas can operate as a crucial tool to foster equality and benefit the women they are meant to empower.

Land Governance and Gender

Author : Uchendu Eugene Chigbu
Publisher : Cabi
ISBN 13 : 9781789247671
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Land Governance and Gender written by Uchendu Eugene Chigbu and published by Cabi. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers conceptual and empirical studies of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure, and land-based gender concerns. Topics include "Creating new understandings," "Exploring alternative approaches for land management and land tenure," "Viewing vistas of tenure experiences across the globe," and "Stretching the gender perspectives""--

Gender Perspectives on Property and Inheritance

Author : Sarah Cummings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789068327144
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Gender Perspectives on Property and Inheritance written by Sarah Cummings and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extrait de la couverture : "Legal and customary arrangements and practices govern women's rights and access to resources, such as land and housing. This book highkights women's unequal position in formal and customary laws and practices and the way in which gender relations affect women's and men's access to property through inheritance. The introduction examines how gender relations defiine ownership and control of property and the attention that the issue of gender equality has received in the development agenda. Five reviews from Latin America, Ivory Coast, South Africa, the Middle East and India focus on the disjuncture between law and practice in terms of women's property and land rights, inheritance, access to resources, marriage and employement. These contributions also reflect on the importance of women's participation in decison-making forums and the need for women's political organization and mobilization in order to redress gender imbalances in land and inheritance rights."

"Good Women Do Not Inherit Land"

Author : Nitya Rao
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9788187358244
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book "Good Women Do Not Inherit Land" written by Nitya Rao and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Good women should not claim a share in the inheritance, even if they have no brothers..' Notions such as this have, in their own way and over time, given the women in the Santal Parganas the resolve to wrest what is rightfully theirs. This is a powerful book in the way in which it unfolds the lives and anxieties of Santal women in two villages of Dumka district, Jharkhand. From the very inception, adivasi women come alive through separate life histories. They span different situations and social patterns but all of them relate to rights in landed property, and their own troubled identities in the backdrop of harsh living conditions, social discrimination and lack of state support. Land for the Santal women is not a mere economic resource. It stands for security, social position and identity, and in this men have a distinct advantage. Soon after, writing in a personal vein, the author unfolds how these anxieties of the Santal women resonate her own. The author traces the relationship between Santals and their land from historic times to the modern era when they have access to both the modern legal system and their own customary laws. She also examines the role of external agencies in this struggle - government administrative bodies, non-governmental organizations and political leaders. As modern influences crowd out traditional mores the author asserts that development is not always a benign process of social advancement but a highly political struggle for re-negotiating power relations between men and women, and among social groups. The use of a 'community' identity as adivasis has also been responsible for denying women rights to land in the context of the movement for political autonomy of Jharkhand. Based on rich ethnographic material, this sensitive book lays bare the reality of being an adivasi and an adivasi woman, in all its nuances, in the modern globalized world.

Property Rights, Intersectionality, and Women’s Empowerment in Nepal

Author : Pradhan, Rajendra
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Property Rights, Intersectionality, and Women’s Empowerment in Nepal by : Pradhan, Rajendra

Download or read book Property Rights, Intersectionality, and Women’s Empowerment in Nepal written by Pradhan, Rajendra and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we explore how different norms around property rights affect the empowerment of women of different social positions over the life cycle. We first review the conceptual foundations of property, empowerment, and intersectionality, and then present the methodology and empirical findings from ethnographic field work in Nepal. Going beyond formal ownership of property, we look at changes in property rights over personal and joint property at different stages of women’s lives. Finally, the paper makes recommendations for how research and development projects, especially in South Asia, can avoid misinterpreting asset and empowerment data by incorporating nuance around the concepts of property rights over the household life cycle

This land is her land: A comparative analysis of gender, institutions, and landownership

Author : Doss, Cheryl R.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis This land is her land: A comparative analysis of gender, institutions, and landownership by : Doss, Cheryl R.

Download or read book This land is her land: A comparative analysis of gender, institutions, and landownership written by Doss, Cheryl R. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most analyses of the gender gaps in landownership are based on one or a few countries in which little discussion is provided of the institutional context. Yet, the institutions within a given context will certainly influence both men’s and women’s landownership. In this paper, we analyze data from individual men and women respondents to the Demographic and Health Surveys in 45 low- and middle-income countries combined with 28 indicators at the national level of relevant institutions. To measure the associations with institutions, we use indicators of the structure of the economy, land market efficiency, women’s labor force participation, education of women and girls, gender equality, women’s property rights, social norms, marital property rights and inheritance, women’s political voice, and the extent of indigenous and communal property in the country. We do not find a clear association between higher GDP and structural transformation in the economy and a smaller gender land gap. This suggests that economic growth and development alone will not resolve the gender land gaps. The indicators that proxy for more gender equality in the labor force, educational attainment, and legal and social norms are all associated with a lower gender gap in landownership.

Women and Property in China, 960-1949

Author : Kathryn Bernhardt
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804735278
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and Property in China, 960-1949 by : Kathryn Bernhardt

Download or read book Women and Property in China, 960-1949 written by Kathryn Bernhardt and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on newly available archival case records, this book demonstrates that Chinese women's rights to property changed substantially from the Song through the Qing dynasties, and even more dramatically under the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30.

Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

Author : Andrew M. Riggsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052168711X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Book Synopsis Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans by : Andrew M. Riggsby

Download or read book Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans written by Andrew M. Riggsby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.

Improving Gender Equity in Access to Land

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251055571
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Improving Gender Equity in Access to Land written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide has been prepared to support non-governmental organizations that are working to promote more equitable access to land for women and men in rural communities. In most societies, access to land has favoured certain individuals and groups at the expense of others. Women are one of the groups that often have fewer and weaker rights to land. The guide addresses gender relations and how their structure affects access to land. It presents strategies to improve gender equity by evaluating the current situation to identify what gender issues exist, by informing people of their rights to land, and by working to empower the marginalized.

Empowering Women

Author : Carmen Diana Deere
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822972327
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Empowering Women written by Carmen Diana Deere and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expansion of married women's property rights was a main achievement of the first wave of feminism in Latin America. As Carmen Diana Deeere and Magdalena Leon reveal, however, the disjuncture between rights and actual ownership remains vast. This is particularly true in rural areas, where the distribution of land between men and women is highly unequal. In their pioneering, twelve-country comparative study, the authors argue that property ownership is directly related to womenÆs bargaining power within the household and community, point out changes resulting from recent gender-progressive legislation, and identify additional areas for future reform, including inheritance rights of wives.

Negotiations of Gender and Property Through Legal Regimes (14th-19th Century)

Author : Margareth Lanzinger
Publisher : Legal History Library
ISBN 13 : 9789004454187
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book Negotiations of Gender and Property Through Legal Regimes (14th-19th Century) written by Margareth Lanzinger and published by Legal History Library. This book was released on 2021 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume explores familial wealth arrangements and gendered property from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries Italian, German and Austrian territories (including Florence, Trento, Tyrol, and Vienna), Nordic countries, Western Pyrenees, and England. Family property as capital in the form of houses, land, movables, financial assets, and rights were of great importance in the past. Arrangements of such property were characterised by a high degree of negotiating competence but likewise they entailed competition between the parties involved and were highly conflict prone. Fourteen contributors from Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, and the UK address different marital property regimes in relation to the practices and legal regulations of inheritance patterns with consideration to inter-familial negotiation, conflict, and resolution. Contributors are: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, Laura Casella, Isabelle Chabot, Siglinde Clementi, Simona Feci, Ellinor Forster, Andrea Griesebner, Christian Hagen, Margareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Silvia Mattivi, Beatrice Moring, Craig Muldrew, Regina Schäfer, and Georg Tschannett"--

Rights and Reality

Author : Marjolein Benschop
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9789211316636
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)

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Book Synopsis Rights and Reality by : Marjolein Benschop

Download or read book Rights and Reality written by Marjolein Benschop and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2002 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gender Perspectives on Property and Inheritance

Author : Sarah Cummings
Publisher : Oxfam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gender Perspectives on Property and Inheritance written by Sarah Cummings and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2001 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title features contributions from the South addressing gender equality and inheritance rights at the household level. Disparities between customary law, family law, and the official legal system are discussed with regard to property rights, marriage, land rights and inheritance. Each article covers the current situation and experiences of violation of women's personal rights and provides policy tools to bring about improvement. Material from across the developing world is included in the annotated bibliography and the resources section. Published in association with KIT Publishers.

She Comes to Take Her Rights

Author : Srimati Basu
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791440964
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book She Comes to Take Her Rights written by Srimati Basu and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-02-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the contemporary workings of property law in India through the lives and thoughts of middle-class and poor women, this is a study of the ways in which cultural practices, and particularly notions of gender ideology, guide the workings of law. It urges a close reading of decisions by women that appear to be contrary to material interests and that reinforce patriarchal ideologies. Hailed as a radical moment for gender equality, the Hindu Succession Act was passed in India in 1956 theoretically giving Hindu women the right to equal inheritance of their parents self-acquired property. However, in the years since the acts existence, its provisions have scarcely been utilized. Using interview data drawn from middle-class and poor neighborhoods in Delhi, this book explores the complexity of womens decisions with regard to family property in this context. The book shows that it is not passivity, ignorance of the law, naiveté about wealth, or unthinking adherence to gender prescriptions that guides womens decisions, but rather an intricate negotiation of kinship and an optimization of socioeconomic and emotional needs. An examination of recent legal cases also reveals that the formal legal realm can be hospitable to womens rights-based claims, but judgments are still coded in terms of customary provisions despite legal criteria to the contrary.

Land Inheritance and Gender

Author : Ann Charleen Marbourg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Land Inheritance and Gender written by Ann Charleen Marbourg and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines what affects whether men and women in rural Bangladesh inherit land and, if they do inherit land, what affects the amount of land inherited. The data is collected from Matlab, Bangladesh, a small-scale agricultural society that has only recently become engaged in industrialization. Land inheritance has traditionally played a key role in a person’s social status and economic security, but changes in the amount of land and in demographics have altered the importance of land and who does the inheriting. Based on a survey of 944 women in rural Bangladesh, this study provides strong support for the predictions that women in Bangladesh are less likely to inherit land and (if they do inherit) to inherit less land than men, that a woman’s likelihood of having inherited land increases when her mother has inherited land, that whether a man or a woman works in agriculture increases their chances of having inherited land, that men’s chances of having inherited land are increased when their parents own land, that women are significantly more likely to inherit land post-mortem than are men, that the amount of land a woman inherits increases as the amount of land her mother inherited increases, and that the amount of land a man inherits increases as his education increases.