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Women and property--women as property
Title
Women and property--women as property / edited by Renée Hirschon.
ISBN
0709912331
0709912587 Pbk
Published
London ; New York : Croom Helm, c1984.
Physical Description
222 p. : ill. ;23 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Bibliography: p. 193-208.
Contents
Introduction; property, power, and gender relations / Renée Hirschon
Cognatic descent, Islamic law, and women's property on the East African coast / Patricia Caplan
The exchange of women and property / Elisabeth Croll
Dowry in North India
Ursula Sharma
Female power and the inequality of wealth and motherhood in North-western Portugal João de Pina-Cabral
The legal and social transformation of rural women in Aegean Turkey / June Starr
Divorce and the disadvantaged / Sandra Burman
"Fear woman" / Sallie Westwood
Subject or object? / Marilyn Strathern
Men and women, kinship and property / Ann Whitehead.
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