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

ISBN-13: 9781138048553 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 174 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 case studies despite their obvious and striking differences the book introduces women, and evidence of female agency, into the predominantly male-centered narratives of rural economic history."

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.