Gender and agrarian reforms

• Main Author: Jacobs, Susie M.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, ©2009.
• Series: Routledge international studies of women and place ; 9.
• Subjects: Women in rural development > Developing countries.; Women in agriculture > Developing countries.; Land reform > Developing countries.; Land reform.; Women in agriculture.; Women in rural development.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.; Electronic books.; Developing countries.
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This book presents an overview of gender and agrarian reform experiences globally, highlighting case studies from Latin America, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Jacobs also compares agrarian and land reforms organized along collective lines as well as those organizing along individual household lin...

Table of Contents:

• Theoretical perspectives
• Debates over agrarian reform
• Concepts for a gendered analysis of agrarian reform
• The gendered effects of household models of land reform
• Collectives and decollectivisations
• Gender and agricultural collectives : Soviet-type economies
• China : from collectivisation to the household responsibility system
• Viet Nam : egalitarian land reform
• Household models of reform and alternatives
• Mobilisation and marginalisation : Latin American examples
• Land reforms, customary law, and land titling in sub-saharan Africa.