Women, Power, and Property - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Power, and Property write by Rachel E. Brulé. This book was released on 2020-10-22. Women, Power, and Property available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this question within the context of India, the world's largest democracy. Brulé employs a research design that maximizes causal inference alongside extensive field research to explain the relationship between political representation, backlash, and economic empowerment. Her findings show that women in government – gatekeepers – catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to property. Women in politics have the power to support constituent rights at critical junctures, such as marriage negotiations, when they can strike integrative solutions to intrahousehold bargaining. Yet there is a paradox: quotas are essential for enforcement of rights, but they generate backlash against women who gain rights without bargaining leverage. In this groundbreaking study, Brulé shows how well-designed quotas can operate as a crucial tool to foster equality and benefit the women they are meant to empower.
Women and Farming
Women and Farming - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Farming write by S. Shortall. This book was released on 1999-06-30. Women and Farming available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arguing that property and power are central to understanding the position of women in farming and using comparative examples, this book considers the transfer of land between men, the changed role of women in the dairy industry in the nineteenth century, women in farming organisations, women in agricultural education programmes, and the role of the state in shaping the lives of farm women. The common themes of power and property underpin all the chapters.
Property Rights, Intersectionality, and Women’s Empowerment in Nepal
Property Rights, Intersectionality, and Women’s Empowerment in Nepal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Property Rights, Intersectionality, and Women’s Empowerment in Nepal write by Pradhan, Rajendra. This book was released on 2018-01-05. Property Rights, Intersectionality, and Women’s Empowerment in Nepal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this paper, we explore how different norms around property rights affect the empowerment of women of different social positions over the life cycle. We first review the conceptual foundations of property, empowerment, and intersectionality, and then present the methodology and empirical findings from ethnographic field work in Nepal. Going beyond formal ownership of property, we look at changes in property rights over personal and joint property at different stages of women’s lives. Finally, the paper makes recommendations for how research and development projects, especially in South Asia, can avoid misinterpreting asset and empowerment data by incorporating nuance around the concepts of property rights over the household life cycle
The Moral Property of Women
The Moral Property of Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moral Property of Women write by Linda Gordon. This book was released on 2002-09-15. The Moral Property of Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now in paperback, The Moral Property of Women is a thoroughly updated and revised version of the award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s classic study, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right (1976). It is the only book to cover the entire history of the intense controversies about reproductive rights that have raged in the United States for more than 150 years. Arguing that reproduction control has always been central to women’s status, Gordon shows how opposition to it has long been part of the entrenched opposition to gender equality.
Building Houses out of Chicken Legs
Building Houses out of Chicken Legs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building Houses out of Chicken Legs write by Psyche A. Williams-Forson. This book was released on 2006-12-08. Building Houses out of Chicken Legs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile environments. Psyche A. Williams-Forson examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. While acknowledging the negative interpretations of black culture associated with chicken imagery, Williams-Forson focuses her analysis on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the "gospel bird." Exploring material ranging from personal interviews to the comedy of Chris Rock, from commercial advertisements to the art of Kara Walker, and from cookbooks to literature, Williams-Forson considers how black women arrive at degrees of self-definition and self-reliance using certain foods. She demonstrates how they defy conventional representations of blackness and exercise influence through food preparation and distribution. Understanding these complex relationships clarifies how present associations of blacks and chicken are rooted in a past that is fraught with both racism and agency. The traditions and practices of feminism, Williams-Forson argues, are inherent in the foods women prepare and serve.
