"In the early 1980s, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small peasant families. Known as the decollectivization campaign, it is one of the most significant reforms in China's transition to a market economy. From...

Introduction -- How the other half lives: rural women encounter England's land rights revolution -- Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Republic: the majority as an obstacle to progress? -- "Without land I am nothing!": Kikuyu women and land rights -- Conclusion