Elusive Equality
Women, Property Rights and Land Reform in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6221906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walker Cherryl (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 467-490 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South African Journal on Human Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0258-7203 • E-ISSN: 1996-2126 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19962126.2009.11865213 |
| OpenAlex | W2144109778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
land as a socio-economic right and secondly, women as a social category, and then reviews what is currently in place with regard to gender equality in land rights, in terms of the Constitution and at the level of state policy and implementation. Land rights constitute a distinctive category of socio-economic rights and the relationship between stronger land rights and enhanced well-being (for both men and women) is not a simple and unmediated one. At the same time, women's interests in land are not uniform but are shaped by complex intersections among various issues, including the broader economic context, their social location, and the effects of social change on family forms and household structure. In the South African case, given general problems with the state's programme of land reform, the question of what it means to infuse the principle of equitable property rights, more specifically land rights, with substantive equality is still an open one. Substantive gender equality in relation to land can also not be separated from other struggles for socio-economic rights
Agriculture · Epistemology · Ethnology · Gender equality · Geography · Human rights · Land law · Land reform · Land rights · Land tenure · Law and economics · Political science · Property rights · Sociology · Gender Studies · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · Philosophy
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Hunger for farmland among female farmers in Limpopo Province
Land reform and changing gender patterns in rural farmland ownership
(Re)constructing rural–urban spaces
How gender-based cultural practices violate women's property rights and inhibit property ownership
Implications of land restitution as a Transformative Social Policy for Water-Energy-Food (WEF) insecurity in Magareng Local Municipality, South Africa
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |