
Gender Perspectives on Property and Inheritance
Series: Gender, Society & Development
Published: 2001
Pages: 144
eBook: 9780855987534
Paperback: 9780855984618
Preface
Acronyms
Introduction: women and property, women as property
Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay
1 Disjuncture in law and practice: women’s inheritance of land in Latin America
Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León
2 Changing the meaning of marriage: women and family law in Côte d’Ivoire
Jeanne Maddox Toungara
3 Family laws and gender discrimination: advocacy for legal reforms in the Arab region
Lina Abou-Habib
4 Women, tenure and land reform: the case of Namaqualand’s Reserves
Fiona Archer and Shamim Meer
5 Does land ownership make a difference? Women’s roles in agriculture in Kerala, India
Shoba Arun
Annotated bibliography
Guide to the bibliography
Annotated bibliography
Author index
Geographical index
Web resources
About the authors
Sarah Cummings
Sarah Cummings is Senior Consultant at CDC. Sarah is a founder editor and co-Chief Editor of the open access, peer reviewed Knowledge Management for Development Journal. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Hivos and of the Editorial Board of the journal, Development in Practice.