Women and farming
Subtitle: property and power
By: Sally Shortall.
Publisher: Macmillan Press; St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Women farmers.; Women in agriculture.; Family farms.; Farm ownership.; Property.; Dairy farmers -- History -- 19th century.; Sex discrimination against women.
Description: "Women and Farming: Property and Power looks at women on family farms. It argues that farming culture affords more power to men than to women. This is because men and women on family farms have different relationships to property. Traditions and customary practices sanction the transfer of land from father to son, thus restricting women's access to property. Economic power follows from property ownership, and this in turn leads to political, ideological and organizational power.

Access to property is regulated by farming culture, and discriminates against women."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-170) and indexes.