Empowering women : land and property rights in Latin America / Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León.
- Deere, Carmen Diana
- Date:
- [2001], ©2001
- Books
- Online
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Publication/Creation
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2001], ©2001.
Physical description
xxv, 486 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents
The importance of gender and property -- Gender, property rights, and citizenship -- Gender exclusionary agrarian reform -- Building blocks toward gender-progressive change -- Engendering the neo-liberal counter-reforms -- The struggle for women's land rights and increased ownership of land -- In defense of community : struggles over individual and collective land rights -- Inheritance of land in practice -- Women property owners : land titling, inheritance, and the market -- Land and property in a feminist agenda.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-478) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.