Women, land and authority : perspectives from South Africa /

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Imprint:Cape Town, South Africa : David Philip in association with the National Land Committee ; Oxford, U.K. : Oxfam (UK and Ireland), 1997.
Description:x, 146 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2739416
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Other authors / contributors:Meer, Shamim.
National Land Committee (South Africa)
ISBN:0864863276 (David Philip)
0855983752 (Oxfam UK/I)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-144) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Sue Middleton
  • Introduction / Shamim Meer
  • 1. Women and tenure: marginality and the left-hand power / Catherine Cross and Michelle Friedman
  • 2. Access to land: a rural perspective on tradition and resources / Lisa Thorp
  • 3. Women's land rights: a case study from the Northern Transvaal / Janet Small
  • 4. Cornfields, gender and land / Cherryl Walker
  • 5. Women's land rights and needs: the case of Thornhill and Merino Walk / Sue Middleton
  • 6. Women, tenure and land reform: the case of Namaqualand's Reserves / Fiona Archer and Shamim Meer
  • 7. Women on Highveld farms: an outlook for development / Linda Waldman and Mampe Ntsedi
  • 8. Western Cape fruit and wine farms: land, labour and housing tenure / Sandra Hill-Lanz and Kathy O'Grady
  • 9. Evicted farm workers and gender in the small town of Aberdeen / Bronwyn James and Sibongile Ngcobo.