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Author : Bina Agarwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : OCLC:34416171
Author : Bina Agarwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063153196
Author : Amrita Mondal
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110690538
Owning Land, Being Women enquires into the processes that establish inheritance as a unique form of property relation in law and society. It focuses on India, examining the legislative processes that led to the 2005 amendment of the Hindu Succession Act 1956, along with several interconnected welfare policies. Scholars have understood these Acts as a response to growing concerns about women’s property rights in developing countries. In re-reading these Acts and exploring the wider nexus of Indian society in which the legislation was drafted, this study considers how questions of family structure and property rights contribute to the creation of legal subjects and demonstrates the significance of the politico-economic context of rights formulation. On the basis of an ethnography of a village in West Bengal, this book brings the moral axis of inheritance into sharp focus, elucidating the interwoven dynamics of bequest, distribution of family wealth and reciprocity of care work that are integral to the logic of inheritance. It explains why inheritance rights based on the notion of individual property rights are inadequate to account for practices of inheritance. Mondal shows that inheritance includes normative structures of affective attachment and expectations, i.e., evaluatively-charged imaginaries of the future that coordinate present practices. These insights pose questions of the dominant resource-based conceptualisation of inherited property in the debate on women’s empowerment. In doing so, this work opens up a line of investigation that brings feminist rights discourse into conversation with ethics, enriching the liberal theory of gender justice.
Author : Bina Agarwal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521429269
An analysis of gender and property throughout South Asia which argues that the most important economic factor affecting women is the gender gap in command over property.
Author : Reena Patel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351156387
Hindu women in India have independent right of ownership to property under the Law of Succession (The Hindu Succession Act, 1956). However, during the last five decades of its operation not many women have exercised their rights under the enactment. This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their share in family land. The work combines a critical evaluation of law with economic analyses into allocation of resources within the family as a means of addressing gender relations and explaining resulting gender inequalities.
Author : Lorenzo Cotula
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9251048495
Women constitute a large portion of the economically active population engaged in agriculture. International instruments on human rights, the environment and sustainable development reaffirm the principle of non-discrimination on the basis of sex or gender. Yet women often face gendered obstacles in realizing their rights and feeding their families. This study analyses the gender dimension of agriculture-related legislation in a selection of different countries around the world, examining the legal status of women in three key areas: rights to land and other natural resources; rights of women agricultural workers; and rights concerning women's agricultural self-employment activities, ranging from women's status in rural cooperatives to their access to credit, training and extension services.
Author : Govind Kelkar,Maithreyi Krishnaraj
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000084320
Across the world women constitute an integral part of the agricultural sector. This volume is based on feminist responses to farming women’s struggle for economic rights and social justice in Asia, and seeks to provide a greater understanding of the development consequences of women’s marginal, limited ownership rights to land and other productive assets. Using comprehensive analyses, quantitative and qualitative data, and case studies from India, China, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and other countries of the Asia-Pacific region, this volume brings together scholars and activists engaged with women’s unmediated entitlement to land and productive assets. While generally taking a position in favour of asset redistribution, the volume addresses two major issues: first, the conflict between legal measures and socio-cultural norms, in a context where laws that seek to secure gender equality and women’s economic empowerment are often overruled by norms that favour men; and second, how changes in the global economy in relation to traditional farming practices have adversely impacted women’s rights, especially in regions where they previously enjoyed more customary rights in asset control and management. The book draws attention to issues of economic security, gender equitable access to resources and asset-building, human rights and law, land-based livelihoods, caste and ethnic diversity, and voices in the women’s movements. This book will be useful to policy makers, civil society organisations, researchers and students of gender and women’s studies, development studies, sociology, economics and agriculture.
Author : Bina Agarwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015056192696
This Study Outlines Why In Rural South Asia, Where Arable Land Is The Most Important Form Of Property, Any Significant Improvement In Women`S Economic And Social Situation Is Crucially Tied To Their Having Independent Land Rights.
Author : Srimati Basu
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791495926
Using the contemporary workings of property law in India through the lives and thoughts of middle-class and poor women, this is a study of the ways in which cultural practices, and particularly notions of gender ideology, guide the workings of law. It urges a close reading of decisions by women that appear to be contrary to material interests and that reinforce patriarchal ideologies. Hailed as a radical moment for gender equality, the Hindu Succession Act was passed in India in 1956 theoretically giving Hindu women the right to equal inheritance of their parents' self-acquired property. However, in the years since the act's existence, its provisions have scarcely been utilized. Using interview data drawn from middle-class and poor neighborhoods in Delhi, this book explores the complexity of women's decisions with regard to family property in this context. The book shows that it is not passivity, ignorance of the law, naiveté about wealth, or unthinking adherence to gender prescriptions that guides women's decisions, but rather an intricate negotiation of kinship and an optimization of socioeconomic and emotional needs. An examination of recent legal cases also reveals that the formal legal realm can be hospitable to women's rights-based claims, but judgments are still coded in terms of customary provisions despite legal criteria to the contrary.
Author : Prem Chowdhry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : 8132112857
This edited volume analyzes the different degrees of discrimination meted out to women by the country's inheritance laws and the corresponding customary practices in tribal societies. It also exposes the current socio-legal structure in the country, which systematically denies women the accessibility to and ownership of productive resources. Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership is XIth in the series 'Land Reforms in India', initiated by the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. The volume contains 14 well-researched chapters through which distinguished scholars.
Author : Bina Agarwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Inheritance and succession
ISBN : UOM:39015051572561
Focuses on the Hindu Succession Act of 1956.
Author : Prem Chowdhry
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124120440
Contemporary India demonstrates a curious labyrinth of land ownership patterns and rights for women co-existing in various states and the inter-regional and intra-regional differences between communities and caste groups. Initiated by the Centre for Rural Studies of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, this volume is a collection of essays on Land Reforms in India by social scientists across disciplines from fourteen different states. The editors offer an in-depth analysis of the laws governing access and control of land and its ownership by women in the various states of India. They examine the diverse ways in which discrimination is experienced by them in their respective states and propose ways to counter this rampant gender inequality. With the help of data the book shows the differences in land ownership patterns and land rights for women across regions, communities and castes. It understands how and why the state laws in relation to agricultural labor, tenants and other farmers, land ceilings, allocation of surplus lands, distribution of ownership titles and other land reforms have failed to accommodate women. Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership examines the dominant role played by cultural and customary practices in depriving women of legal rights which they may have had, and proposes ways, based upon extensive field work as well as interaction between legal experts, social activists and bureaucrats, to counter gender inequality in all the major zones of India. This interdisciplinary study with its wide contemporary reach will encourage debates on existing society and the augmentation/implementation of laws and rights required to establish a more just and equitable society.
Author : Nitya Rao
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 8187358246
'Good women should not claim a share in the inheritance, even if they have no brothers..' Notions such as this have, in their own way and over time, given the women in the Santal Parganas the resolve to wrest what is rightfully theirs. This is a powerful book in the way in which it unfolds the lives and anxieties of Santal women in two villages of Dumka district, Jharkhand. From the very inception, adivasi women come alive through separate life histories. They span different situations and social patterns but all of them relate to rights in landed property, and their own troubled identities in the backdrop of harsh living conditions, social discrimination and lack of state support. Land for the Santal women is not a mere economic resource. It stands for security, social position and identity, and in this men have a distinct advantage. Soon after, writing in a personal vein, the author unfolds how these anxieties of the Santal women resonate her own. The author traces the relationship between Santals and their land from historic times to the modern era when they have access to both the modern legal system and their own customary laws. She also examines the role of external agencies in this struggle - government administrative bodies, non-governmental organizations and political leaders. As modern influences crowd out traditional mores the author asserts that development is not always a benign process of social advancement but a highly political struggle for re-negotiating power relations between men and women, and among social groups. The use of a 'community' identity as adivasis has also been responsible for denying women rights to land in the context of the movement for political autonomy of Jharkhand. Based on rich ethnographic material, this sensitive book lays bare the reality of being an adivasi and an adivasi woman, in all its nuances, in the modern globalized world.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Fao
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015052304394
This guide has been prepared to support land administrators in governments and their counterparts in civil society who are involved in land access and land administration questions in rural development. It is designed to show where and why gender inclusion is important in projects and programmes that aim at improving land tenure and land administration arrangements.
Author : Prem Chowdhry
Publisher : Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9353289505
Seeks to evaluate why few women own land, and even fewer effectively control it by relating it to the gender unequal laws/ policies.