Gender and land reform [[electronic resource] ] : the Zimbabwe experience / / Allison Goebel

• Autore: Goebel Allison
• Pubblicazione: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: x, 178 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 333.3/16891
• Soggetto topico: Land reform - Zimbabwe; Women's rights - Zimbabwe; Women in agriculture - Zimbabwe - Social conditions; Land settlement - Government policy - Zimbabwe; Réforme agraire - Zimbabwe; Femmes - Droits - Zimbabwe; Femmes en agriculture - Zimbabwe - Conditions sociales; Colonisation intérieure - Politique gouvernementale - Zimbabwe
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-174) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Departure points -- Gendering African land -- Marriage and land -- Married women, the state, and family dynamics -- Women without men -- Local institutions, land, and environment -- Gender relations in resettlement -- Conclusions.
• Sommario/riassunto: Goebel examines the social forces and effects of the resettlement process, including state policy and legislation, customary norms and practices, local institutions, and ideologies and cosmologies. Her study emphasizes the strategic choices women make in new institutional and household contexts and considers the interests of poor women who have been marginalized within the land reform process.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender and land reform
• ISBN: 1-282-86318-5; 9786612863189; 0-7735-7251-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820954103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II