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