Women and property--women as property
By: edited by Renée Hirschon.
Contributors: Hirschon, Renee.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: 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: Bibliography: p. 193-208.
Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; property, power, and gender relations / Renée Hirschon; value: Cognatic descent, Islamic law, and women's property on the East African coast / Patricia Caplan; value: The exchange of women and property / Elisabeth Croll; value: Dowry in North India; value: Ursula Sharma; value: Female power and the inequality of wealth and motherhood in North-western Portugal João de Pina-Cabral; value: The legal and social transformation of rural women in Aegean Turkey / June Starr; value: Divorce and the disadvantaged / Sandra Burman; value: "Fear woman" / Sallie Westwood; value: Subject or object? / Marilyn Strathern; value: Men and women, kinship and property / Ann Whitehead.