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Author Deere, Carmen Diana.

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

Imprint Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  346.80432 D36e    ---  Available
Description xxv, 486 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Pitt Latin American series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-478) and index.
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.
Subject Real property -- Latin America.
Sex discrimination against women -- Latin America.
Equality before the law -- Latin America.
Added Author Leon de Leal, Magdalena.
ISBN 0822941619 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822957671 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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