1st Edition
Women, Land Rights and Rural Development How Much Land Does a Woman Need?
By Esther Kingston-Mann
Copyright 2018
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
188 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The failure to include gender in the economic history of rural development has severely limited our understanding of privatizing, collectivist and colonial economic policies that disrupted and transformed the lives of rural women and men in the modern world. This book is unique in its focus on female economic agency, and in its exploration of the latter virtue in comparative historical... Read more
Introduction 1. How the Other Half Lives: Rural Women Encounter England’s Land Rights Revolution 2. Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Republic: The Majority as an Obstacle to Progress? 3. "Without Land I Am Nothing!": Kikuyu Women and Land Rights. Conclusion
Biography
Esther Kingston-Mann is Ford Service Professor Emerita in the Department of History at University of Massachusetts Boston.
