Women and property - women as property

In: The Oxford women's series

Abstract

Introduction; property, power, and gender relations / Renée Hirschon -- Cognatic descent, Islamic law, and women's property on the East African coast / Patricia Caplan -- The exchange of women and property / Elisabeth Croll -- Dowry in North India -- Ursula Sharma -- Female power and the inequality of wealth and motherhood in North-western Portugal João de Pina-Cabral -- The legal and social transformation of rural women in Aegean Turkey / June Starr -- Divorce and the disadvantaged / Sandra Burman -- "Fear woman" / Sallie Westwood -- Subject or object? / Marilyn Strathern -- Men and women, kinship and property / Ann Whitehead