Women and Property - Women As Property

First published in 1984, Women and Property studies the idea of wealth and property in relation to women in diverse countries. It attempts a definition of the term 'property' itself and goes on to look at the relationships and rights associated with these various kinds of property.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. Introduction: Property, Power and Gender Relations 2. Cognatic Descent, Islamic Law and Women’s Property on the East African Coast 3. The Exchange of Women and Property: Marriage in Post-Revolutionary China 4. Dowry in North India: Its Consequences for Women 5. Female Power and the Inequality of Wealth and Motherhood in North-western Portugal 6. The Legal and Social Transformation of Rural Women in Aegean Turkey 7. Divorce and the Disadvantaged: African Women in Urban South Africa 8. ‘Fear Women’: Property and Modes of Production in Urban Ghana 9. Subject or Object? Women and the Circulation of Valuables in Highlands New Guinea 10. Men and Women, Kinship and Property: Some General Issues Bibliography Contributors Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Renee Hirschon

Zusammenfassung

First published in 1984, Women and Property studies the idea of wealth and property in relation to women in diverse countries. It attempts a definition of the term 'property' itself and goes on to look at the relationships and rights associated with these various kinds of property.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Renee Hirschon
• Mitarbeit: Renee Hirschon (Herausgeber), Hirschon Renee (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.07.2023
• EAN: 9781032537856
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253785-6
• Seiten: 230
• Serie: Routledge Revivals
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls