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Women's land rights & privatization in eastern Africa / edited by Birgit Englert & Elizabeth Daley. - Oxford : James Currey, 2008. - xii, 179 p. : map ; 22 cm. - Eastern Africa series . - Eastern African studies (London, England) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : women's land rights & privatization / Birgit Englert & Elizabeth Daley -- Breathing life into dead theories about property rights in rural Africa : lessons from Kenya / Celestine Nyamu-Musembi -- 'Go home & clear the conflict' : human rights perspectives on gender & land in Tanzania / Ingunn Ikdahl -- Gender, uenyeji, wealth, confidence & land in Kinyanambo : the impact of commoditization, rural-urban change & land registration in Mufindi District, Tanzania / Elizabeth Daley -- Changing land rights & gendered discourses : examples from the Uluguru mountains, Tanzania / Birgit Englert -- Falling between two stools : how women's land rights are lost between state & customary law in Apac District, northern Uganda / Judy Adoko & Simon Levine -- Struggling with in-laws & corruption in Kombewa Division, Kenya : the impact of HIV/AIDS on widows' and orphans' land rights / Samwel Ong'wen Okuro -- Women & land arrangements in Rwanda : a gender-based analysis of access to natural resources / An Ansoms & Nathalie Holvoet -- Afterword : securing women's land rights / Elizabeth Daley & Birgit Englert.

This collection examines women's land rights in East Africa in the context of land tenure reforms and privatization.

ISBN: 9781847016119 1847016111 9789970028443 9970028448 1847016103 9781847016102

LCCN: 2009275469

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA8A1512 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014697905 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Land reform--Africa, East.
Women's rights--Africa, East.
Land tenure--Government policy--Africa, East.
Privatization--Social aspects--Africa, East.
Frau.
Bodenreform.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Ostafrika.

LC Class. No.: HD1333.A353 / W66 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 333.308209676