ISBN:
0709912587
Language:
English
Pages:
222 S
,
graph. Darst
Series Statement:
The Oxford women's series
DDC:
342.64
Keywords:
Women Economic conditions
;
Women Legal status, laws, etc
;
Married women Economic conditions
;
Property
;
Power (Social sciences)
;
Frau
;
Industrielle Gesellschaft
;
Soziale Rolle
;
Geschlechtsrolle
;
Gleichberechtigung
;
Unterprivilegierung
Abstract:
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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