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Women's land rights & privatization in eastern Africa / edited by Birgit Englert & Elizabeth Daley.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Eastern African studies (London, England)Publication details: Oxford : James Currey, 2008.Description: xii, 179 p. : map ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781847016119
  • 1847016111
  • 9789970028443
  • 9970028448
  • 1847016103
  • 9781847016102
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Women's land rights & privatization in eastern Africa.DDC classification:
  • 333.308209676 22
LOC classification:
  • HD1333.A353 W66 2008
Contents:
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.
Summary: This collection examines women's land rights in East Africa in the context of land tenure reforms and privatization.
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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.

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