Table of Contents
Preface 1. Introduction: Property, Power and Gender Relations 2. Cognatic Descent, Islamic Law and Women’s Property on the East African Coast 3. The Exchange of Women and Property: Marriage in Post-Revolutionary China 4. Dowry in North India: Its Consequences for Women 5. Female Power and the Inequality of Wealth and Motherhood in North-western Portugal 6. The Legal and Social Transformation of Rural Women in Aegean Turkey 7. Divorce and the Disadvantaged: African Women in Urban South Africa 8. ‘Fear Women’: Property and Modes of Production in Urban Ghana 9. Subject or Object? Women and the Circulation of Valuables in Highlands New Guinea 10. Men and Women, Kinship and Property: Some General Issues Bibliography Contributors Index
