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Women and property--women as property / edited by Renée Hirschon.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Economic conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Married women--Economic conditions.
- Married women.
- Property.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages : illustrations ; ;23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1983.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 193-208.
- ISBN:
- 0312887302 :
- OCLC:
- 9647191
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