Record Item Year: 2006

This paper aims to demonstrate that China’s land policy and land law are altered in social interactions between different actors. Such social processes have led to the gendering of rural land tenure practices, but also a highly heterogeneous situation with regard to land tenure. This paper aims to demonstrate that the combined effect of marital relations, kinship, social network and low political representation of women in the community often results in the deprivation of women’s land rights and many women are becoming landless. However, our field research shows that there are also cases where women are able to get access […]

In this paper I analyze the language and concepts framing approaches taken by the Chinese women’s movement to women and rural development. Until the late 1990s the language adopted by Chinese women’s organizations concerned with rural development was quite different from that of development agencies elsewhere, but since that time it has become increasingly similar. In this paper I ask: to what extent did the earlier language of Chinese women’s development activists point to understandings and practices that were different from those of the global development movement? And what might be the significance of the growing convergence between the two?

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