Women and property--women as property /
edited by Renée Hirschon.
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1983.
- 222 p. : ill. ;23 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 193-208.
Introduction; property, power, and gender relations / Renée Hirschon -- Cognatic descent, Islamic law, and women's property on the East African coast / Patricia Caplan -- The exchange of women and property / Elisabeth Croll -- Dowry in North India -- Ursula Sharma -- Female power and the inequality of wealth and motherhood in North-western Portugal João de Pina-Cabral -- The legal and social transformation of rural women in Aegean Turkey / June Starr -- Divorce and the disadvantaged / Sandra Burman -- "Fear woman" / Sallie Westwood -- Subject or object? / Marilyn Strathern -- Men and women, kinship and property / Ann Whitehead.
0312887302 : $25.00 (est.)
83011029
Women--Economic conditions.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Married women--Economic conditions.
Property.
Power (Social sciences)
HQ1154 / .W879 1983
305.42 / WOM
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 193-208.
Introduction; property, power, and gender relations / Renée Hirschon -- Cognatic descent, Islamic law, and women's property on the East African coast / Patricia Caplan -- The exchange of women and property / Elisabeth Croll -- Dowry in North India -- Ursula Sharma -- Female power and the inequality of wealth and motherhood in North-western Portugal João de Pina-Cabral -- The legal and social transformation of rural women in Aegean Turkey / June Starr -- Divorce and the disadvantaged / Sandra Burman -- "Fear woman" / Sallie Westwood -- Subject or object? / Marilyn Strathern -- Men and women, kinship and property / Ann Whitehead.
0312887302 : $25.00 (est.)
83011029
Women--Economic conditions.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Married women--Economic conditions.
Property.
Power (Social sciences)
HQ1154 / .W879 1983
305.42 / WOM