Kingston-Mann Women, Land Rights and Rural Development

How Much Land Does a Woman Need?
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-69099-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 30, 188 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and History

This book presents a comparative history of how rural women claimed—or were prevented from claiming—land in the course of private and collectivist property rights revolutions in very different times and places. Using seventeenth-century England, twentieth-century Russia and the Soviet Union, and twentieth-century colonial Kenya as historical case studies—despite their obvious and striking differences—the book introduces women, and evidence of female agency, into the predominantly male-centered narratives of rural economic history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kingston-Mann, Esther

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. A Plot of One’s Own: English Rural Women Encounter the Mother of all Privatizations

2. How the Other Half Lives: Rural Women and Property Rights in 20th-Century Russia and the Soviet Union

3. "Without Land I Am Nothing": Kikuyu Women in 20th-Century Kenya and the Struggle over Land Rights

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Esther Kingston-Mann is Ford Service Professor Emerita in the Department of History at University of Massachusetts Boston.