Women And Inheritance
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Author | : Marten Stol |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 2016-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1614512639 |
Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.
Author | : Rachel E. Brulé |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108870600 |
Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this question within the context of India, the world's largest democracy. Brulé employs a research design that maximizes causal inference alongside extensive field research to explain the relationship between political representation, backlash, and economic empowerment. Her findings show that women in government – gatekeepers – catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to property. Women in politics have the power to support constituent rights at critical junctures, such as marriage negotiations, when they can strike integrative solutions to intrahousehold bargaining. Yet there is a paradox: quotas are essential for enforcement of rights, but they generate backlash against women who gain rights without bargaining leverage. In this groundbreaking study, Brulé shows how well-designed quotas can operate as a crucial tool to foster equality and benefit the women they are meant to empower.
Author | : Amrita Mondal |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-04-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3110690535 |
Owning Land, Being Women enquires into the processes that establish inheritance as a unique form of property relation in law and society. It focuses on India, examining the legislative processes that led to the 2005 amendment of the Hindu Succession Act 1956, along with several interconnected welfare policies. Scholars have understood these Acts as a response to growing concerns about women’s property rights in developing countries. In re-reading these Acts and exploring the wider nexus of Indian society in which the legislation was drafted, this study considers how questions of family structure and property rights contribute to the creation of legal subjects and demonstrates the significance of the politico-economic context of rights formulation. On the basis of an ethnography of a village in West Bengal, this book brings the moral axis of inheritance into sharp focus, elucidating the interwoven dynamics of bequest, distribution of family wealth and reciprocity of care work that are integral to the logic of inheritance. It explains why inheritance rights based on the notion of individual property rights are inadequate to account for practices of inheritance. Mondal shows that inheritance includes normative structures of affective attachment and expectations, i.e., evaluatively-charged imaginaries of the future that coordinate present practices. These insights pose questions of the dominant resource-based conceptualisation of inherited property in the debate on women’s empowerment. In doing so, this work opens up a line of investigation that brings feminist rights discourse into conversation with ethics, enriching the liberal theory of gender justice.
Author | : Klaus Deininger |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Access to information |
ISBN | : |
Recognition of the potentially deleterious implications of inequality in opportunity originating in a skewed asset distribution has spawned considerable interest in land reforms. However, little attention has been devoted to the fact that, in the longer-term, the measures used to implement land reforms, especially rental restrictions, could negatively affect productivity. Use of state level data on rental restrictions, together with a nationally representative survey from India suggests that, contrary to original intentions, rental restrictions negatively affect productivity and equity by reducing scope for efficiency-enhancing rental transactions that benefit poor producers. Simulations suggest that, by doubling the number of producers with access to land through rental, from about 15 million currently, liberalization of rental markets could have far-reaching impacts.
Author | : Carole Shammas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kathryn Bernhardt |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804735278 |
Drawing on newly available archival case records, this book demonstrates that Chinese women's rights to property changed substantially from the Song through the Qing dynasties, and even more dramatically under the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30.
Author | : Eileen Spring |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807864706 |
Eileen Spring presents a fresh interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy. In a work that recasts both the history of real property law and the history of the family, she finds that one of the principal and determinative features of upper-class real property inheritance was the exclusion of females. This exclusion was accomplished by a series of legal devices designed to nullify the common-law rules of inheritance under which--had they prevailed--40 percent of English land would have been inherited or held by women. Current ideas of family development portray female inheritance as increasing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but Spring argues that this is a misperception, resulting from an incomplete consideration of the common-law rules. Female rights actually declined, reaching their nadir in the eighteenth century. Spring shows that there was a centuries-long conflict between male and female heirs, a conflict that has not been adequately recognized until now.
Author | : Joy Ezeilo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Inheritance and succession |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry P. Leifermann |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
Genre | : Cotton trade |
ISBN | : 9780025702202 |
Author | : Uju Obiora |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Inheritance and succession |
ISBN | : |