Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights

This collection of cutting-edge articles focuses on recent shifts in thinking about land rights, particularly as they relate to women. Leading feminist scholars in the field provide searching treatment of the long-neglected subject of gender and access to land. The articles are introduced and contextualized by Shahra Razavi. She weaves together the findings and arguments of contributions which look at the implications of the current neoliberal policy agenda for a number of specific regions. Topics covered range from policy discussions about women's land rights in sub-Saharan Africa to land tenure reforms and women's interests in Tanzania; and from new prospects with respect to gender and land rights in India, to agrarian reform to rural social movements and women's land rights in Brazil. This is a timely collection, in which careful empirical analysis is presented with analytical power and clarity. The papers are provocative, refreshingly original and richly informative.

ISBN 1405110767   Pages 304 ISBN13 9781405110761 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 494 Imprint Blackwell Publishing Ltd   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 245 Publication date 23 May 2003   Width (mm) 168 Library of Congress HD1332   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY 333.31082091724   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		Preface by Thandika Mkandawire
		Editors' Introduction by Terence J. Byres and Henry Bernstein		1
1		Introduction: Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights by Shahra Razavi		2
2		Global Capitalism, Deflation and Agrarian Crisis in Developing Countries by Utsa Patnaik		33
3		Policy Discourses on Women's Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary by Ann Whitehead and Dzodzi Tsikata		67
4		Piety in the Sky? Gender Policy and Land Reform in South Africa by Cherryl Walker		113
5		Securing Women's Interests within Land Tenure Reforms: Recent Debates in Tanzania by Dzodzi Tsikata		149
6		Gender and Land Rights Revisited: Exploring New Prospects via the State, Family and Market by Bina Agarwal		184
7		The Cry for Land: Agrarian Reform, Gender and Land Rights in Uzbekistan by Deniz Kandiyoti		225
8		Women's Land Rights and Rural Social Movements in the Brazilian Agrarian Reform by Carmen Diana Deere		257
		Index		289

" Its strength is conceptual - not in telling the reader what to think about agrarian change, gender and land tenure reform, but in rethinking definitions, making new distinctions, giving us conceptual tools and showing us how to use them contextually." Development and Change "The outstanding scholarship behind thier conclusions - skilfully woven together by Shahra Razavi in a powerful introduction best appreciated after reading the other contributions - makes this book required reading for anyone concerned with gender justice in land rights (and not only in an agrarian context)." Gender, Place and Culture "This book provides a very useful consideration of the relationships between agrarian change, gender and land rights in a number of developing countries... The book is free of jargon and will be of value to final year undergraduates specialising in development and postgraduates looking for a useful summary of the issues and a guide to further reading." Alasdair Blair, University of Westminster

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