Departure points -- Gendering African land -- Marriage and land -- Married women, the state, and family dynamics -- Women without men -- Local institutions, land, and environment -- Gender relations in resettlement -- Conclusions
Summary
Goebel examines the social forces and effects of the resettlement process, including state policy and legislation, customary norms and practices, local institutions, and ideologies and cosmologies. Her study emphasizes the strategic choices women make in new institutional and household contexts and considers the interests of poor women who have been marginalized within the land reform process
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-174) and index
