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Women, land & power in Asia, editors, Govind Kelkar, Maithreyi Krishnaraj

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Women, land & power in Asia

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editors, Govind Kelkar, Maithreyi Krishnaraj

Introduction / Govind Kelkar and Maithreyi Krishnaraj -- Part I. Land rights for the farming women in Asia: 1. Policy formulation, law reform and women's property rights in South Asia / Savitri Goonesekere -- 2. Gender asset gaps and land rights in the context of the Asia-Pacific region / Rajini Menon and Preet Rustagi -- 3. Gender and productive assets: implications for women's economic security and productivity / Govind Kelkar -- Part II: 4. Women's ownership rights and access to land in Bangladesh / Sadeka Halim -- 5. Women's land rights in China: an unpromising future / Wang Yunxian -- 6. Gender and productive resources: Nepal's case of landownership / Ganesh Gurung -- 7. Women's land use knowledge and entitlement in Swidden agriculture / Govind Kelkar and Lily Wangchuk -- 8. Rules and norms in women's access to productive resources: ponds in Bangladesh / Dev Nathan and Rownok Jahan -- 9. Gender and livestock in Nagaland / Rosemary Dzuvichu -- 10. Mal Chhe to Mobho Chhe: livestock is dignity for us / Lalji Desai -- Part III. Women's entitlement to land and productive assets in India: 11. The status of indigenous women and land rights in Jharkhand / Samar Bosu Mullick -- 12. Land, livestock and the rights of women in rural India / N.C. Saxena -- 13. Women's entitlement to land and livestock in matrilineal Meghalay / Patricia Mukhim -- 14. Changing context of women's entitlement to land in Gujarat / Meera Velayudhan -- 15. Women's landownership in Gujarat: what has worked and what needs to be looked at! / Sejal Dave -- 16. Women and land rights in Maharashtra / Seema Kulkarni -- 17. Resistance and struggle for survival: access, control and ownership of poor and Dalit women to land in Andhra Pradesh / V. Rukmini Rao -- 18. Women's entitlements to land: grassroots strategies for legitimising claims / Nitya Rao

Women, land and power in Asia