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Understanding women's land rights : gender discrimination in ownership / edited by Prem Chowdhry.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Land reforms in India ; Volume 13.
- Land Reforms in India ; Volume 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land tenure--India.
- Land tenure.
- Women landowners--India.
- Women landowners.
- Sex discrimination against women--India.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Land tenure--Law and legislation--India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (413 pages) : illustrations, tables.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, [California] : Sage, 2017.
- Summary:
- In India, inheritance laws and social practices systematically deny women ownership of productive resources. In this collection of essays, well-known social scientists critically evaluate existing state laws regarding land ownership. The varied forms of gender discrimination that exist between and within regions, communities, and caste groups are studied. Few women own land, and even fewer effectively control it. The book recommends ways to counter this inequality by challenging laws and sociocultural values that allow discrimination to persist. Understanding Women's Land Rights is the XIII volume in the series 'Land Reforms in India', initiated by the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. The XI and XIII volumes study gender-unequal land rights in 14 Indian states.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 93-86446-33-2
- 93-86446-32-4
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