Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Preface
- Map 1.1 South Asia: provincial/state divisions
- 1 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
- 5 Contemporary laws: 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
- 10 The long march ahead
- Definitions
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Cambridge South Asian Studies
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Preface
- Map 1.1 South Asia: provincial/state divisions
- 1 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
- 5 Contemporary laws: 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
- 10 The long march ahead
- Definitions
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Cambridge South Asian Studies
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- A Field of One's OwnGender and Land Rights in South Asia, pp. ix - xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995