Women, Power, and Property - The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India

Can political representation help women upend entrenched systems of power? Property and Power finds evidence that quotas improve women's ability to claim fundamental economic rights. Yet greater voice is costly. Whether women experience benefits or backlash depends on individual bargaining power at the time a woman is elected.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. A theory of political representation and economic agency; 3. Property and power: a political history of the Hindu joint family; 4. Where are the women? Investigating reform's roots; 5. The politics of property rights enforcement; 6. The long arm of resistance: refusal to care for parents; 7. Representation and violence: gender equality and sex selection; 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Rachel Brulé is Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University. She specializes in comparative politics​, the political economy of development, gender, ​South Asia, representation, ​inequality, and migration.

Summary

Can political representation help women upend entrenched systems of power? Property and Power finds evidence that quotas improve women's ability to claim fundamental economic rights. Yet greater voice is costly. Whether women experience benefits or backlash depends on individual bargaining power at the time a woman is elected.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel E. (Boston University) Brule, Rachel E. Brulé
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108798846
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79884-6
• No. of pages: 394
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, India, Comparative Politics, Gender & the law, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Law and society, gender issues