Full Citation: Harrell, S., “Aspects of Marriage in Three South-western Villages,” 130 THE CHINA QUARTERLY 323 (1992).
Record Topic: Marriage & Divorce
No Change for Thirty Years: The Renewed Question of Women’s Land Rights in Rural China
Full Citation: Judd, E. R., “No Change for Thirty Years: The Renewed Question of Women’s Land Rights in Rural China,” 38 DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE 689 (2007).
Patrilocality and Early Marital Co-residence in Rural China
Full Citation: Lavely, W. and Ren, X., “Patrilocality and Early Marital Co-residence in Rural China, 1955–85,” 130 THE CHINA QUARTERLY 378 (1992).
Married Women’s Rights to Land in China’s Traditional Farming Areas
Full Citation: Li, Y. and Yin-Sheng, X., “Married Women’s Rights to Land in China’s Traditional Farming Areas,” 15(49) JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA 621 (2006). – This paper focuses on women’s land rights in their maiden village in traditional farming areas, and shows, based on an analysis of a case study combined with a questionnaire survey, that married women’s land rights tend to be retained in their parent’s village with the implementation of new policy and land contract laws, but that they have almost no rights in their maiden families after marriage, due to the influence of traditional marriage notions and […]
The Recently Revised Marriage Law of China: The Promise and the Reality
Full Citation: Ogletree, C. Jr. and de Silva-de Alwis, R., “The recently revised marriage law of China: The promise and the reality,” 13(2) TEXAS JOURNAL OF WOMEN AND THE LAW 251 (2004).
Introduction: Rural Economic Reforms and Chinese Family Patterns
Full Citation: Whyte, M. K., “Introduction: Rural Economic Reforms and Chinese Family Patterns,” 130 THE CHINA QUARTERLY 317 (1992).
Rural Women, Displacement and the Three Gorges Project
Full Citation: Tan, Y., Hugo, G. and Potter, L., “Rural Women, Displacement and the Three Gorges Project,” 36 DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE 711 (2005).
Who Owns the Land? Gender and Land-Titling Programmes in Latin America
Full citation: Deere, C. D. and Leon, M., “Who Owns the Land? Gender and Land-Titling Programmes in Latin America,” 1(3) JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE 440 (July 2001). – The main focus of state intervention in Latin American agriculture in the 1990s was on land-titling programs, designed to promote security of tenure and enliven land markets. A review of seven of these projects suggests that they were often designed without sufficient attention to civil codes and marital regimes that protect women’s property rights. They often ignored that a household’s endowment of land may consist of three forms of property: the wife’s, […]
Women, Wives and Land Rights in Africa: Situating Gender Beyond the Household in the Debate Over Land Policy and Changing Tenure Systems
Full citation: Yngstrom, I. “Women, Wives and Land Rights in Africa: Situating Gender Beyond the Household in the Debate Over Land Policy and Changing Tenure Systems,” 30(1) OXFORD DEVELOPMENT STUDIES 21 (February 2002).
Report on the proceedings of the National Conference on Women’s Land and Property Rights and Livelihood in Namibia, with a Special Focus on HIV/AIDS
Full citation: Namibia Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare & FAO, “Report on the proceedings of the National Conference on Women’s Land and Property Rights and Livelihood in Namibia, with a Special Focus on HIV/AIDS,” (July 2005).