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Understanding women's land rights : gender discrimination in ownership
Title
Understanding women's land rights : gender discrimination in ownership / edited by Prem Chowdhry.
ISBN
9789386446312
9386446316
9789386446336
9386446332
9789386446329
9386446324
Publication
New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
xxii, 413 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary
"[This book evaluates] existing state laws regarding land ownership. The varied forms of gender discrimination that exist between and within regions, communities, and caste groups are studied. Few women own land, and even fewer effectively control it. The book recommends ways to counter this inequality by challenging laws and sociocultural values that allow discrimination to persist."-- Back cover.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 20, 2019
Series
Land reforms in India ; volume 13
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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