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Empowering women [electronic resource] : land and property rights in Latin America / Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deere, Carmen Diana.
- Series:
- Pitt Latin American series.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Pitt Latin American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Real property--Latin America.
- Sex discrimination against women--Latin America.
- Equality before the law--Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 486 p. ; 24 cm.
- Contained In:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
- Other Title:
- Empowering Women
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Pittsburgh Press, c2001.
- Contents:
- The importance of gender and property
- Gender, property rights, and citizenship
- Gender exclusionary agrarian reform
- Building blocks toward gender-progressive change
- Engendering the neo-liberal counter-reforms
- The struggle for women's land rights and increased ownership of land
- In defense of community : struggles over individual and collective land rights
- Inheritance of land in practice
- Women property owners : land titling, inheritance, and the market
- Land and property in a feminist agenda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-478) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8229-5767-1
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