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Women's land rights & privatization in eastern Africa / edited by Birgit Englert & Elizabeth Daley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daley, Elizabeth, Author.
- Series:
- Eastern African studies (London, England)
- Eastern Africa series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land reform--Africa, East.
- Land reform.
- Women's rights--Africa, East.
- Women's rights.
- Land tenure--Government policy--Africa, East.
- Land tenure.
- Privatization--Social aspects--Africa, East.
- Privatization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 179 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : James Currey ; Kampala : Fountain Publishers ; Nairobi : EAEP ; Dar es Salaam : E&D Vision, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the context of increasing privatization and land reform these case studies reveal how reforms impact on women's rights to land and how these rights are contested or upheld.
- Contents:
- FRONTCOVER; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; Introduction: Women's land rights & privatization; 1 Breathing Life into Dead Theories about Property Rights in Rural Africa: Lessons from Kenya; 2 'Go Home & Clear the Conflict': Human rights perspectives on gender & land in Tanzania; 3 Gender, Uenyeji, Wealth, Confidence & Land in Kinyanambo: The impact of commoditization, rural-urban change & land registration in Mufindi District, Tanzania; 4 Changing Land Rights & Gendered Discourses: Examples from the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania
- 5 Falling Between Two Stools: How women's land rights are lost between state & customary law in Apac District, Northern Uganda6 Struggling with In-Laws & Corruption in Kombewa Division, Kenya: The impact of HIV/AIDS on widows' and orphans' land rights; 7 Women & Land Arrangements in Rwanda: A gender-based analysis of access to natural resources; AFTERWORD: Securing women's land rights; INDEX; BACKCOVER
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Mar 2023).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-62120-3
- 9786612621208
- 1-84615-680-7
- OCLC:
- 748354930
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