Agarwal, Bina

A field of one's own: gender and land rights in South Asia/ Bina Agarwal - New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2008. - xxi, 572 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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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Right of property
Land reform
Land tenure
Rural women
Women's rights

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