Women and property--women as property
By: edited by Renée Hirschon.
Contributors: Hirschon, Renee.
Publisher: Croom Helm; St. Martin's Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Women -- Economic conditions.; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Married women -- Economic conditions.; Property.; Power (Social sciences)
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 193-208.
Table of contents: 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 Northern 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; Divorced and the disadvantaged / Sandra Burman; "Fear woman" / Sallie Westwood; Subject or object? / Marilyn Strathern; Men and women, kinship and property / Ann Whitehead.