2001
A Study of Women’s Land Rights in Dongfang County, Hainan Province
This report discusses women’s rights to land in China, based on field research conducted in January 2000 in Dongfang City of Hainan Province. Granting women in China legal rights to land is unlikely to translate into sustained access and control over land resources unless and until these rights are both socially recognized and adequately enforced. download PDF
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