Preface 1. Introduction: Property, Power and Gender Relations Renée Hirschon 2. Cognatic Descent, Islamic Law and Women’s Property on the East African Coast Patricia Caplan 3. The Exchange of Women and Property: Marriage in Post-Revolutionary China Elisabeth Croll 4. Dowry in North India: Its Consequences for Women Ursula Sharma 5. Female Power and the Inequality of Wealth and Motherhood in North-western Portugal João de Pina-Cabral 6. The Legal and Social Transformation of Rural Women in Aegean Turkey June Starr 7. Divorce and the Disadvantaged: African Women in Urban South Africa Sandra Burman 8. ‘Fear Women’: Property and Modes of Production in Urban Ghana Sallie Westwood 9. Subject or Object? Women and the Circulation of Valuables in Highlands New Guinea Marilyn Strathern 10. Men and Women, Kinship and Property: Some General Issues Ann Whitehead Bibliography Contributors Index
Biography
Renee Hirschon
