Women, land rights and rural development : how much land does a woman need? /

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Author / Creator:Kingston-Mann, Esther, author.
Imprint:New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
©2018
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Routledge research in gender and history ; 30
Routledge research in gender and history ; 30.
Subject:Land tenure -- History.
Rural development -- History.
Rural women -- History.
Women landowners -- History.
Women in agriculture -- History.
Land tenure.
Rural development.
Rural women.
Women in agriculture.
Women landowners.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11544814
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ISBN:9781315170138
1315170132
9781138048553
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 19, 2018).
Other form:Print version: Kingston-Mann, Esther, author. Women, land rights and rural development New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 9781138048553
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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 perspective. It presents the apparently disparate cases of 17th-century England, 20th-century Russia and the Soviet Union, and 20th-century Kenya, as their top-down modernization projects were implemented in similar fashion --particularly in the case of women. The female half of the population was largely absent from contemporary economic databases, but nevertheless stereotyped as obstacles to rational economic decision-making. Introducing rural women and their innovations into male-centered narratives of economic history lays the foundation for a more demographically balanced and realistic understanding of rural behavior and rural development. In this study, women's labor and land claims are the lens through which both female agency and the delegitimizing of women's land claims become more visible. Both policy-makers and their leading critics deployed virtually identical language to describe backward, unruly and invariably "unsightly" peasant women.

Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781315170138
1315170132
9781138048553