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Dowry and Property Rights
Anderson, Siwan - eSocialSciences - 2007
Modernisation necessarily leads to the emergence of dowry as a direct transfer to the groom ("groom-price"). The … historical instances of dowry can be classified according to the schema implied by the model. The implications of the model are … also tested using current data from Pakistan; a country of some relevance because dowry legislation is currently an active …
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Shariat Courts and Women’s Rights in India
Hussain, Sabiha - eSocialSciences - 2009
articles given at the time of marriage. [CWDS] …
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Migration and Chronic Poverty
Kothari, Uma - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper provides an overview of conceptual understandings of, and methodological research issues on, the relationship between chronic, or long-term, poverty and processes of migration. The paper presents a framework to enable an analysis of social relations and processes of exclusion, and the...
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The Socio-Economic Determinants Behind Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality
Innovation, Indian Trust for; ITISC, Social Change - eSocialSciences - 2009
A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features accelatrating Infant Mortality rate and Maternal Mortality Rate.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496178
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Gender, Caste, Class, and Health Care Access
Iyer, Aditi - eSocialSciences - 2005
. Routine household health surveys do help us understand how iniquitous access to health care can be, but offer limited … opportunities for a gender analysis along the crosscutting axes of caste, class, age and life stage. Such an exercise is more …
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Women’s Economic Empowerment as the “Magic Potion†of Development?
Blumberg, Rae Lesser - eSocialSciences - 2008
enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion …
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Laws and Son Preference in India- A Reality Check
Singh, Kirti - eSocialSciences - 2014
absence of certain laws, in fact, accentuate the factors that make girls unwanted, be it laws related to inheritance, dowry …, harassment or child marriage. Taking action to enhance the social value of girls would therefore mean taking the first few steps …
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Anti-Superstition Legislation
MANS, Maharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmoolan Samiti - eSocialSciences - 2013
After a long and gruelling campaign by ANS for the past eight years to enact a Law against Superstition which harm the citizens, the Maharashtra State Government under the leadership of the new Chief Minister Hon. Sushilkumar Shinde has passed in their Cabinet meeting such a law and sent it to...
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Book Review: Dowry: A Way of Enforcing Women’s Subordinate Status
Kodoth, Praveena - eSocialSciences - 2011
Broken Mirrors: The Dowry Problem in India by Robin Wyatt and Nazia Masood,Sage, Publications, 2010, 244 pages and …
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Obituary: Prof. Ila Pathak (1933-2014): A Feminist Crusader
Patel, Vibhuti; Shukla, Sonal - eSocialSciences - 2014
women. She tirelessly supported women survivors of dowry harassment, rape victims, crimes of honour (‘fallen†women whose …
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