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1 online resource (1357 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Gender Challenges: Volume 1: Agriculture, Technology, and Food Security; Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes; List of Abbreviations; Credits; Preface; Introduction; 1: Women and Technological Change in Agriculture: The Asian and African Experience; 2: Agricultural Mechanisation and Labour Use: A Disaggregated Approach; 3: Rural Women and the High Yielding Variety Rice Technology in India; 4: Women, Poverty, and Agricultural Growth in India; 5: Work Participation of Rural Women in the Third World: Some Data and Conceptual Biases |
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6: The Diffusion of Rural Innovations: Some Analytical Issues and the Case of Wood-Burning Stoves7: Social Security and the Family: Coping with Seasonality and Calamity in Rural India; 8: Rethinking Agricultural Production Collectivities; 9: Food Crises and Gender Inequality; References; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author; Gender Challenges: Volume 2: Property, Family, and the State; Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Abbreviations; Credits; Preface; Introduction; 1: Gender and Command over Property: A Critical Gap in Economic Analysis and Policy in South Asia |
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2: Gender and Legal Rights in Agricultural Land in India3: Widows versus Daughters or Widows as Daughters?: Property, Land, and Economic Security in Rural India; 4: 'Bargaining' and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household; 5: 'The Family' in Public Policy: Fallacious Assumptions and Gender Implications; 6: Toward Freedom from Domestic Violence: The Neglected Obvious; 7: 'Bargaining', Gender Equality, and Legal Change: The Case of India's Inheritance Laws; 8: Gender, Resistance, and Land: Interlinked Struggles over Resources and Meanings in South Asia |
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9: Gender and Land Rights Revisited: Exploring New Prospects via the State, Family, and Market10: The Idea of Gender Equality: From Legislative Vision to Everyday Family Practice; References; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author; Gender Challenges: Volume 3: Environmental Change and Collective Action; Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Abbreviations; Credits; Preface; Introduction; 1: The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India; 2: Environmental Management, Equity, and Ecofeminism: Debating India's Experience |
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3: Conceptualising Environmental Collective Action: Why Gender Matters4: Gender, Environment, and Poverty Interlinks: Regional Variations and Temporal Shifts in Rural India, 1971-91; 5: Participatory Exclusions, Community Forestry, and Gender: An Analysis for South Asia and a Conceptual Framework; 6: Gender Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability; 7: Does Women's Proportional Strength Affect Their Participation?: Governing Local Forests in South Asia; 8: Rule Making in Community Forestry Institutions: The Difference Women Make |
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9: Gender and Forest Conservation: The Impact of Women's Participation in Community Forest Governance |
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Print version record |
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Women in rural development -- Developing countries
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Women in rural development
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199095278 |
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0199095272 |
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