Agrarian change, gender and land rights / edited by Shahra Razavi . - Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing, 2003. - vii, 296 p. ; 25 cm.

"First published 2003 as Journal of Agrarian Change Special issue 3( 1&2), by Blackwell Publishing."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global capitalism, deflation and agrarian crisis in developing count ries / Utsa Patnaik -- Policy discourses on women's land rights in Sub- Saharan Africa : the implications of the return to the customary / Anne Whitehead and Dzodzi Tsikata -- Piety in the sky? : gender policy and land reform in South Africa / Cherryl Walker -- Securing women's intere sts within land tenure reforms : recent debates in Tanzania / Dzodzi Ts ikata -- Gender and land rights revisited : exploring new prospects via the state, family and market / Bina Agarwal -- The cry for land : agra rian reform, gender and land rights in Uzbekistan / Deniz Kandiyoti -- Women's land rights and rural social movements in the Brazilian agraria n reform / Carmen Diana Deere.

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Land reform--Developing countries-- Case studies.
Women in rural development--Case studies.
Women's rights--Developing countries-- Case studies.

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