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A field of one's own: gender and land rights in South Asia

Bina Agarwal
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of illustrations (page xii)
  • List of tables (page xiii)
  • Preface (page xv)
  • 1 Land rights for women: making the case (page 1)
  • 2 Conceptualizing gender relations (page 51)
  • 3 Customary rights and associated practices (page 82)
  • 4 Erosion and disinheritance: traditionally matrilineal and bilateral communities (page 153)
  • 5 Contemporary laws: contestation and content (page 198)
  • 6 Whose share? Who claims? The gap between law and practice (page 249)
  • 7 Whose land? Who commands? The gap between ownership and control (page 292)
  • 8 Tracing cross-regional diversities (page 316)
  • 9 Struggles over resources, struggles over meanings (page 421)
  • 10 The long march ahead (page 467)
  • Definitions (page 505)
  • Glossary (page 507)
  • References (page 510)
  • Index (page 553)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
BSOAS 59.2 (1996): 399 - 400 http://www.jstor.org/stable/619767
EJ 106.436 (May 1996): 708-709 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2235579
FEMR 63 (Autumn 1990): 112-115 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1395597
LE 72.2 (May 1996): 269-273 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3146971
JRAI 2.2 (Jun. 1986): 358-359 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3034108
JAS 57.1 (Feb. 1986): 243-244 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2659073
PA 71.3 (Autumn 1998): 436-437 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2761441
CS 26.1 (Jan. 1997): 50-53 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2076596
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Published: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521418683 (hardcover)
  • 9780511995095 (ebook)
  • 9780521429269 (paper)
Subject
  • Asian: South and Southeast
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