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WRRC Bibliography

“Gender analysis of land: beyond land rights for women?”
Gender analysts of development have worked on land and property relations in poor rural areas for over two decades and the JAC 2003 special issue carried a range of work reflecting some of these research trajectories.
“Gender and land rights revisited: exploring new prospects via the state, family and market”
The question of women’s land rights has a relatively young history in India. This paper briefly traces the history of women’s land rights in India before examining why gendering the land question remains critical, and what the new possibilities are for enhancing women’s land access. Potentially...
“Gender and property rights within post conflict situations”
Afghanistan is one of the case studies in this report which provides an assessment of the nature of women’s property rights in regions affected by conflict. The report reviews property rights programmes funded by donors in post conflict situations and teases out major policy and programmatic...
“Gender relations in the democratization process: an analysis of agrarian policies in Africa”
This paper links women’s empowerment in the democratisation process to the sexual division of labour and resources in land management.
“Greater Sins: The Complete Book”

Ayatollah Shirazi is originally from Shiraz, Iran and has penned dozens of books on the improvement of morals, fiqh and the exegesis of Quran. Shirazi writes on the “great” sins, of which adultery is one, but offers some specifically Shia commentary. While he condones stoning, his...

“Hajieh to be the first saved from stoning”

Behareh Davalloo was the lawyer of Hajieh Esmalivand, a woman who was sentenced to stoning in 2006. Davalloo was also the director of the Independent Society of Attorneys, and member of the Network of Volunteer Lawyers, the Women’s Centre for Legal Counseling, and the Stop Stoning Forever...

“Happy days came knocking at Beebuls”
This article tells the story of Beebul Hassan, a 37 year old mother of 7 children, belonging to the small village of Deh Jharandi, District Thatta, who was one of the hundreds of women mobilized and facilitated by Participatory Development Initiatives, in applying for the lands distributed under...
“Harmful traditional practices under Ethiopian Law”

A reference material on FGM and the legal provisions under the Ethiopian Law. It also takes a general look at Women’s through a constitutional perspective. 

“Have Jola women found a way to resist patriarchy with commodities? (Senegal, West Africa)”
This paper is a study of how commoditisation and female migration among the Jola in Senegal have provided opportunities for women to free themselves from male control over their labour. It questions whether despite these gains, women are nevertheless marginalised in Senegal’s urban economy.
“Helping the landless become landowners”