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Understanding women's land rights : gender discrimination in ownership /

Seeks to evaluate why few women own land, and even fewer effectively control it by relating it to the gender unequal laws/ policies.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chowdhry, Prem (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications Inc, 2017.
Colección:Land reforms in India ; v. 13.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Upma Chawdhry
  • Editor's introduction: Persisting gender discrimination in land rights / Prem Chowdhry
  • Andhra Pradesh : land rights and land access to women in Andhra Pradesh / E. Revathi
  • Arunachal Pradesh : engendering tribal land rights for gendering the land : a case study among Apatani and Nyishi communities / Rimi Tadu
  • Chhattisgarh : gender issues in landownership in Chattisgarh : existing land laws, policies, and practices / Ramesh Sharma
  • Goa : women and land rights in the context of legal propertied equality in Goa / Ritu Dewan
  • Gujarat : women empowerment through landownership rights : critical assessment of their status in Gujarat / Itishree Pattnaik
  • Jammu and Kashmir : gendering the landownership question in Jammu and Kashmir / Abha Chauhan
  • Jharkhand : understanding women and land rights in Jharkhand / M.N. Karna
  • Maharashtra : land, land rights and women in Maharashtra / Ritu Dewan
  • Mizoram : women's access and ownership of land : a case of Mizoram state in India / Saroj Arora
  • Nagaland : gender and land relations in Nagaland : emerging issues / C. Sridhar, Saroj Arora, and Khunenchu Magh
  • Rajasthan : persisting inequalities : gender and land rights in Rajasthan / Kanchan Mathur
  • Sikkim : locating gender in land rights discourse in Sikkim / Sohel Firdos
  • Tamil Nadu : women's land rights in the context of neo-liberal Tamil Nadu / Ranjani K. Murthy
  • Uttarakhand : gender justice and law : a gender-specific study of landownership in Uttarakhand / Indu Pathak.