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Understanding women's land rights : gender discrimination in ownership / edited by Prem Chowdhry.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Land reforms in India ; v. 13.Publisher: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications Inc, 2017Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 413 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789386446329
  • 9386446324
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Understanding women's land rights.DDC classification:
  • 333.3/154082 23
LOC classification:
  • HD873 .U53 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Upma Chawdhry -- Editor's introduction: Persisting gender discrimination in land rights / Prem Chowdhry -- Andhra Pradesh : land rights and land access to women in Andhra Pradesh / E. Revathi -- Arunachal Pradesh : engendering tribal land rights for gendering the land : a case study among Apatani and Nyishi communities / Rimi Tadu -- Chhattisgarh : gender issues in landownership in Chattisgarh : existing land laws, policies, and practices / Ramesh Sharma -- Goa : women and land rights in the context of legal propertied equality in Goa / Ritu Dewan -- Gujarat : women empowerment through landownership rights : critical assessment of their status in Gujarat / Itishree Pattnaik -- Jammu and Kashmir : gendering the landownership question in Jammu and Kashmir / Abha Chauhan -- Jharkhand : understanding women and land rights in Jharkhand / M.N. Karna -- Maharashtra : land, land rights and women in Maharashtra / Ritu Dewan -- Mizoram : women's access and ownership of land : a case of Mizoram state in India / Saroj Arora -- Nagaland : gender and land relations in Nagaland : emerging issues / C. Sridhar, Saroj Arora, and Khunenchu Magh -- Rajasthan : persisting inequalities : gender and land rights in Rajasthan / Kanchan Mathur -- Sikkim : locating gender in land rights discourse in Sikkim / Sohel Firdos -- Tamil Nadu : women's land rights in the context of neo-liberal Tamil Nadu / Ranjani K. Murthy -- Uttarakhand : gender justice and law : a gender-specific study of landownership in Uttarakhand / Indu Pathak.
Summary: Seeks to evaluate why few women own land, and even fewer effectively control it by relating it to the gender unequal laws/ policies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 5, 2017).

Foreword / Upma Chawdhry -- Editor's introduction: Persisting gender discrimination in land rights / Prem Chowdhry -- Andhra Pradesh : land rights and land access to women in Andhra Pradesh / E. Revathi -- Arunachal Pradesh : engendering tribal land rights for gendering the land : a case study among Apatani and Nyishi communities / Rimi Tadu -- Chhattisgarh : gender issues in landownership in Chattisgarh : existing land laws, policies, and practices / Ramesh Sharma -- Goa : women and land rights in the context of legal propertied equality in Goa / Ritu Dewan -- Gujarat : women empowerment through landownership rights : critical assessment of their status in Gujarat / Itishree Pattnaik -- Jammu and Kashmir : gendering the landownership question in Jammu and Kashmir / Abha Chauhan -- Jharkhand : understanding women and land rights in Jharkhand / M.N. Karna -- Maharashtra : land, land rights and women in Maharashtra / Ritu Dewan -- Mizoram : women's access and ownership of land : a case of Mizoram state in India / Saroj Arora -- Nagaland : gender and land relations in Nagaland : emerging issues / C. Sridhar, Saroj Arora, and Khunenchu Magh -- Rajasthan : persisting inequalities : gender and land rights in Rajasthan / Kanchan Mathur -- Sikkim : locating gender in land rights discourse in Sikkim / Sohel Firdos -- Tamil Nadu : women's land rights in the context of neo-liberal Tamil Nadu / Ranjani K. Murthy -- Uttarakhand : gender justice and law : a gender-specific study of landownership in Uttarakhand / Indu Pathak.

Seeks to evaluate why few women own land, and even fewer effectively control it by relating it to the gender unequal laws/ policies.

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