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Title Empowering women : land and property rights in Latin America / Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León
Published Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2001

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 Murray Library-6th Floor  KG173 .D44 2001    IN LIBRARY
Description xxv, 486 p. 24 cm
Series Pitt Latin American series
Pitt Latin American series
Subject Real property -- Latin America
Sex discrimination against women -- Latin America
Equality before the law -- Latin America
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents The importance of gender and property -- Gender, property rights, and citizenship -- Gender exclusionary agrarian reform -- Building blocks toward gender-progressive change -- Engendering the neo-liberal counter-reforms -- The struggle for women's land rights and increased ownership of land -- In defense of community: struggles over individual and collective land rights -- Inheritance of land in practice -- Women property owners: land titling, inheritance, and the market -- Land and property in a feminist agenda
Other Author León de Leal, Magdalena
ISBN 0822957671 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822941619 (cloth : alk. paper)