Women and property in urban India / Bipasha Baruah.

By:

Baruah, Bipasha, 1971- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2010Description: viii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780774819282 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 323.460820954 BAR 015062

Contents:

1 Minding the Gap: Gender and Property Ownership 2 Locating Gender and Property in Development Discourse 3 Place Matters: Orientation to Research Location and Context 4 Complicated Lives: Urban Women and Multiple Vulnerabilities 5 Gendered Realities: Property Ownership and Tenancy Relationships 6 Women and Housing Microfinance 7 Partnership Projects for Urban Basic Services 8 Conclusions: Seeing the Forest and the Trees Appendices Notes References Index. Minding the gap : gender and property ownership Locating gender and property in development discourse Place matters : orientation to research location and context Complicated lives : urban women and multiple vulnerabilities Gendered realities : property ownership and tenancy relationships Women and housing microfinance Partnership projects for urban basic services Conclusions : seeing the forest and the trees.

Summary: An intimate exploration of the opportunities and constraints faced by low-income women in Ahmedabad, as throughout the Global South, in securing access to landed property.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	323.460820954 BAR 015062 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		015062

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-235 ) and index.

1 Minding the Gap: Gender and Property Ownership 2 Locating Gender and Property in Development Discourse 3 Place Matters: Orientation to Research Location and Context 4 Complicated Lives: Urban Women and Multiple Vulnerabilities 5 Gendered Realities: Property Ownership and Tenancy Relationships 6 Women and Housing Microfinance 7 Partnership Projects for Urban Basic Services 8 Conclusions: Seeing the Forest and the Trees Appendices Notes References Index.
Minding the gap : gender and property ownership
Locating gender and property in development discourse
Place matters : orientation to research location and context
Complicated lives : urban women and multiple vulnerabilities
Gendered realities : property ownership and tenancy relationships
Women and housing microfinance
Partnership projects for urban basic services
Conclusions : seeing the forest and the trees.

An intimate exploration of the opportunities and constraints faced by low-income women in Ahmedabad, as throughout the Global South, in securing access to landed property.

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