A Field Of Ones Own: Gender And Land Rights In South Asia

(Size: 24x16cms.), Contents: List of Illustrations, List of Tables, Preface. 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. Struggle over resources, struggles over meanings. 10. The long march ahead, Definitions, Glossary, References, Index. ISBN:8185618631 xxi+572 Yr. of Pub.1996 Hard Bound