Empowering women : land and property rights in Latin America / Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León.

Author/Creator:

Deere, Carmen Diana.

Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2001.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series

Format/Description:

Book
xxv, 486 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Real property -- Latin America.
Sex discrimination against women -- Latin America.
Equality before the law -- Latin America.

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.

Contributor:

León de Leal, Magdalena.

ISBN:

0822941619 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822957671 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

46936165

Online:

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