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Gender and land reform : the Zimbabwe experience / Allison Goebel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goebel, Allison.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land reform--Zimbabwe.
- Land reform.
- Women's rights--Zimbabwe.
- Women's rights.
- Women in agriculture--Zimbabwe--Social conditions.
- Women in agriculture.
- Land settlement--Government policy--Zimbabwe.
- Land settlement.
- Physical Description:
- x, 178 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Goebel examines the social forces and effects of the resettlement process, including state policy and legislation, customary norms and practices, local institutions, and ideologies and cosmologies. Her study emphasizes the strategic choices women make in new institutional and household contexts and considers the interests of poor women who have been marginalized within the land reform process.
- Contents:
- Departure points
- Gendering African land
- Marriage and land
- Married women, the state, and family dynamics
- Women without men
- Local institutions, land, and environment
- Gender relations in resettlement
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-174) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86318-5
- 9786612863189
- 0-7735-7251-1
- OCLC:
- 923231325
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