Empowering women : land and property rights in Latin America / Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena Le�on.
Series: Pitt Latin American seriesPublisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2001]Copyright date: �2001Description: 1 online resource (513 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0822941619 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822957671 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780822941613
- 9780822972327 (e-book)
- 346.804/32 21
- KG173 .D44 2001eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
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