Women and property--women as property /
by Hirschon, Renee.
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BookPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1983Description: 222 p. : ill. ;23 cm.ISBN: 0312887302 :.Subject(s): Women -- Economic conditions | Women -- Legal status, laws, etc | Married women -- Economic conditions | Property | Power (Social sciences)
Contents:
Introduction; property, power, and gender relations / Renée Hirschon -- Cognatic descent, Islamic law, and women's property on the East African coast / Patricia Caplan -- The exchange of women and property / Elisabeth Croll -- Dowry in North India -- Ursula Sharma -- Female power and the inequality of wealth and motherhood in North-western Portugal João de Pina-Cabral -- The legal and social transformation of rural women in Aegean Turkey / June Starr -- Divorce and the disadvantaged / Sandra Burman -- "Fear woman" / Sallie Westwood -- Subject or object? / Marilyn Strathern -- Men and women, kinship and property / Ann Whitehead.
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| 305.42 UNW Women and gender : | 305.42 WIG The globalized woman : | 305.42 WOE Engendering development : | 305.42 WOM Women and property--women as property / | 305.42 WOM Women, culture, and development : | 305.42 WOM Women, ethnicity and nationalism : | 305.42 WOM Women gender and discrimination / |
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 193-208.
Introduction; property, power, and gender relations / Renée Hirschon -- Cognatic descent, Islamic law, and women's property on the East African coast / Patricia Caplan -- The exchange of women and property / Elisabeth Croll -- Dowry in North India -- Ursula Sharma -- Female power and the inequality of wealth and motherhood in North-western Portugal João de Pina-Cabral -- The legal and social transformation of rural women in Aegean Turkey / June Starr -- Divorce and the disadvantaged / Sandra Burman -- "Fear woman" / Sallie Westwood -- Subject or object? / Marilyn Strathern -- Men and women, kinship and property / Ann Whitehead.
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