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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Renee Hirschon

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Renee Hirschon
• Assisted by: Renee Hirschon (Editor), Hirschon Renee (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2023
• EAN: 9781032537856
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253785-6
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls