Gender, Family and Property Rights

Praveena Kodoth
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Praveena Kodoth: Kerala Research Programme for Local Level Development, Centre for Development Studies, Ulloor, Thiruvananthapuram 695 011

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2001, vol. 8, issue 2, 291-306

Abstract: The structures and practices of families are crucial in determining gender-differentiated patterns of access to land and other forms of property/productive resources. However, major redistributional or reform programmes such as that of land have failed to take this into account. This paper addresses, conceptually, women's and men's claims to land/property in terms of via more recent land reforms experience to discuss the importance to property reform of a gendered understanding of the family. Besides, it attempts to probe the direction of change in property-related practices, including inheritance, dowry and residence, in contemporary Kerala to understand the implications of the emerging practices for women's property rights.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1177/097152150100800209

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