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Title Women's rights to house and land : China, Laos, Vietnam / edited by Irene Tinker, Gale Summerfield
Published Boulder, Colo. ; London : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999

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Description x, 305 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction / Irene Tinker and Gale Summerfield. 1. Women's Empowerment Through Rights to House and Land / Irene Tinker. 2. Economic Development, Housing, and the Family: Is the Singapore Approach an Appropriate Model? / Jean Larson Pyle -- Pt. 1. Vietnam. 3. Women Influencing Housing in Ho Chi Minh City / Thai Thi Ngoc Du. 4. Women's Access to Housing in Hanoi / Hoang Thi Lich. 5. Women and Rural Land in Vietnam / Tran Thi Van Anh. 6. Cultivating the Forest: Gendered Land Use Among the Tay in Northern Vietnam / Carol Ireson-Doolittle and W. Randall Ireson. 7. New Land Rights and Women's Access to Medicinal Plants in Northern Vietnam / Jennifer Sowerwine -- Pt. 2. Laos. 8. Gender and Changing Property Rights in Laos / Carol Ireson-Doolittle. 9. Reforming Property Rights in Laos / Manivone Viravong -- Pt. 3. China. 10. Chinese Women's Housing Rights: An International Legal Perspective / Dia Warren. 11. Housing Reform in Urban China / Gale Summerfield and Nahid Aslanbeigui
12. The Impacts of Shanghai Housing Reform / Fei Juanhong. 13. State and Market Provision of Housing in Shanghai / Barbara Hopkins. 14. The Housing Situation for Women in Beijing / Wei Zhangling and Bu Xin. 15. Changes in Housing Patterns for Rural Chinese Women / Li Weisha. 16. Changing Land and Housing Use by Rural Women in Northern China / Li Zongmin -- Conclusion / Irene Tinker and Gale Summerfield
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index
Subject Women's rights -- China.
Women in development -- China.
Women -- Housing -- China.
Women's rights -- Laos.
Women in development -- Laos.
Women -- Housing -- Laos.
Women's rights -- Vietnam.
Women in development -- Vietnam.
Women -- Housing -- Vietnam.
Author Tinker, Irene.
Summerfield, Gale, 1948-
LC no. 99026774
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