Empowering Women

Land and Property Rights in Latin America

Carmen Diana Deere (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

544 Seiten

2001
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-5767-6 (ISBN)

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The expansion of married women's property rights was a main achievement of feminism in Latin America. This study argues that property ownership is directly related to women's bargaining power within the household and community and points out changes resulting from gender-progressive leglisation.

The expansion of married women's property rights was a main achievement of the first wave of feminism in Latin America. As Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena Leon reveal, however, the disjuncture between rights and actual ownership remains vast. This is particularly true in rural areas, where the distribution of land between men and women is highly unequal. In their pioneering, twelve-country comparative study, the authors argue that property ownership is directly related to women's bargaining power within the household and community, point out changes resulting from recent gender-progressive legislation, and identify additional areas for future reform, including inheritance rights of wives.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.2001
Reihe/Serie	Pitt Latin American Series
Co-Autor	Magdalena Leon
Verlagsort	Pittsburgh PA
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Immobilienwirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-8229-5767-1 / 0822957671
ISBN-13	978-0-8229-5767-6 / 9780822957676
Zustand	Neuware