Women's Rights to House and Land : : China, Laos, and Vietnam /

Women's Rights to House and Land : : China, Laos, and Vietnam / / ed. by Irene Tinker, Gale Summerfield.

Gender disparities frequently accompany rapid socioeconomic change, as cultural traditions that protected women—even as they constrained them—collapse in the face of development reforms. This collaborative volume, involving both Asian and U.S. scholars, explores the impact of changes in women’s righ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Aslanbeigui, Nahid,
Hopkins, Barbara,
Ireson, W. Randall,
Ireson-Doolittle, Carol,
Juanhong, Fei,
Ngoc Du, Thai Thi,
Pyle, Jean Larson,
Sowerwine, Jennifer,
Summerfield, Gale,
Thi Lich, Hoang,
Tinker, Irene,
Van Anh, Tran Thi,
Viravong, Manivone,
Warren, Dia,
Weisha, Li,
Xin, Bu,
Zhangling, Wei,
Zongmin, Li,
HerausgeberIn:
Summerfield, Gale,
Tinker, Irene,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]
©1999
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (305 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 Women's Empowerment Through Rights to House and Land
  • 2 Economic Development, Housing, and the Family: Is the Singapore Approach an Appropriate Model?
  • PART 1 : VIETNAM
  • 3 Women Influencing Housing in Ho Chi Minh City
  • 4 Women's Access to Housing in Hanoi
  • 5 Women and Rural Land in Vietnam
  • 6 Cultivating the Forest: Gendered Land Use Among the Tay in Northern Vietnam
  • 7 New Land Rights and Women's Access to Medicinal Plants in Northern Vietnam
  • PART 2: LAOS
  • 8 Gender and Changing Property Rights in Laos
  • 9 Reforming Property Rights in Laos
  • PART 3: CHINA
  • 10 Chinese Women's Housing Rights: An International Legal Perspective
  • 11 Housing Reform in Urban China
  • 12 The Impacts of Shanghai Housing Reform
  • 13 State and Market Provision of Housing in Shanghai
  • 14 The Housing Situation for Women in Beijing
  • 15 Changes in Housing Patterns for Rural Chinese Women
  • 16 Changing Land and Housing Use by Rural Women in Northern China
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • The Contributors
  • Index
  • About the Book

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