Hirschon, Renee. text bibliography nyu New York St. Martin's Press 1983 monographic eng

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222 p. : ill. ;23 cm. 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. edited by Renée Hirschon. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 193-208. Women Economic conditions Women Legal status, laws, etc Married women Economic conditions Property Power (Social sciences) HQ1154 .W879 1983 305.42 WOM 0312887302 : 83011029 DLC 830523 20170518190641.0 1878008