Women, Land Rights and Rural Development: How Much Land Does a Woman Need?

ISBN-13: 9780367884376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 188 str.

Esther Kingston-Mann

Opis

This book presents a comparative history of how rural women claimed—or were prevented from claiming—land in the course of private and collectivist property rights revolutions in very different times and places. Using seventeenth-century England, twentieth-century Russia and the Soviet Union, and twentieth-century colonial Kenya as historical cas

Spis treści

Introduction  1. How the Other Half Lives: Rural Women Encounter England’s Land Rights Revolution  2. Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Republic: The Majority as an Obstacle to Progress?  3. "Without Land I Am Nothing!": Kikuyu Women and Land Rights.  Conclusion

O autorze

Esther Kingston-Mann is Ford Service Professor Emerita in the Department of History at University of Massachusetts Boston.