Women’s Agential Power in the Political Economy of Agricultural Land

Govind Kelkar and Santosh Kumar Jha

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, vol. 5, issue 1, 98-122

Abstract: This article seeks to understand whether the legal policies and advances of women’s movements have resulted in women’s entitlement to land and whether the land reforms carried out from the 1970s to the 1990s have weakened the grip of patriarchy and increased women’s capability and land-related decision-making power. We examine these questions by looking at (i) women as producers of agricultural goods and participants in the market economy and (ii) women as partial or full owners of land and the impact of this on decision-making. In both cases, there is the role of women as managers of productive assets, which is different from their former and traditional status as dependent family members.

Keywords: Women’s entitlement in land reforms; Gender and caste inequalities; Claims-making to land; state response to women’s protests; asset transfers in women’s names; land ownership and gender-based violence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/2277976016658736

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