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Hindu Women's Property Rights in Rural India
Ashgate Publishing, Sep 2007, Pages: 158
This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their share in family land. The work combines a critical evaluation of law with economic analyses into allocation of resources within the family as a means of addressing gender relations and explaining resulting gender inequalities.
Reviews
'In engaging with but going beyond the prevalent critical literature on bargaining within households, this book makes an original and valuable contribution to our understanding of the complex ways in which law and culture interact to construct the value of women's labour in agricultural economies and societies.'
Shirin Rai, University of Warwick, UK
About the Author/Editor
Reena Patel is a Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Warwick, UK. Her teaching and research interest areas include gender, law and development. Dr Patel is a founder/coordinator of the South Asian Research Network on Gender, Law and Governance, a network of activists and researchers working together on gender issues from a regional perspective in South Asia.
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