Women's Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam

Table of contents

• Women's Rights to House and Land *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Introduction: Women's Changing Rights to House and Land in Vietnam, Laos, and China 1
• 1 - Women's Empowerment Through Rights to House and Land 9
• Notes *
• 2 - Economic Development, Housing, and the Family: is the Singapore Approach an Appropriate Model? 27
• Notes *
• Part One - Vietnam 53
• 3 - Women Influencing Housing in Ho Chi Minh City 55
• Notes 76
• 4 - Women's Access to Housing in Hanoi 77
• 5 - Women and Rural Land in Vietnam 95
• Notes *
• 6 - Cultivating the Forest: Gendered Land Use Among the Tay in Northern Vietnam 115
• Notes *
• 7 - New Land Rights and Women's Access to Medicinal Plants in Northern Vietnam 131
• Notes *
• Part Two - Laos 143
• 8 - Gender and Changing Property Rights in Laos 145
• Notes *
• 9 - Reforming Property Rights in Laos 153
• Part Three - China 163
• 10 - Chinese Women's Housing Rights: an International Legal Perspective 165
• Notes *
• 11 - Housing Reform in Urban China 179
• Notes *
• 12 - The Impacts of Shanghai Housing Reform 195
• Notes *
• 13 - State and Market Provision of Housing in Shanghai 207
• Notes *
• 14 - The Housing Situation for Women in Beijing 223
• Notes *
• 15 - Changes in Housing Patterns for Rural Chinese Women 231
• Notes *
• 16 - Changing Land and Housing Use by Rural Women in Northern China 241
• Notes *
• Conclusion: What We Know—and What We Need to Know 265
• Bibliography 273
• The Contributors 297
• Index 301
• About the Book 305

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