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Author Baruah, Bipasha, 1971-

Title Women and property in urban India / Bipasha Baruah
Published Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 247 pages) : map
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-235) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Land tenure -- India
Right of property -- India
Urban women -- Housing -- India
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Land tenure
Right of property
Urban women -- Housing
India
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010513398
ISBN 0774819286
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