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Empowering women : land and property rights in Latin America

Title
Empowering women : land and property rights in Latin America / Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León.
Author
Deere, Carmen Diana.
Publication
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors
León de Leal, Magdalena.
Description
xxv, 486 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Pitt Latin American series
Uniform Title
Pitt Latin American series.
Subject
  • Real property > Latin America
  • Sex discrimination against women > Latin America
  • Equality before the law > Latin America
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-478) and index.
Contents
1. The Importance of Gender and Property -- 2. Gender, Property Rights, and Citizenship -- 3. Gender Exclusionary Agrarian Reform -- 4. Building Blocks toward Gender-Progressive Change -- 5. Engendering the Neo-Liberal Counter-Reforms -- 6. The Struggle for Women's Land Rights and Increased Ownership of Land -- 7. In Defense of Community: Struggles over Individual and Collective Land Rights -- 8. Inheritance of Land in Practice -- 9. Women Property Owners: Land Titling, Inheritance, and the Market -- 10. Land and Property in a Feminist Agenda.
ISBN
  • 0822941619 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822957671 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2001002752
OCLC
  • ocm46936165
  • SCSB-4185403
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries