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This volume is based on feminist responses to farming women¿s struggle for economic rights and social justice in Asia. Using comprehensive analyses, quantitative and qualitative data, it seeks to provide a greater understanding of the development consequences of women¿s marginal, limited ownership rights to land and other productive assets.

This book is a unique intersectional analysis combining culture, gender struggles and structural including economic transformations, both in the formation of gendered class society, patriarchy and capitalism.

This important volume views gender relations as a crucial factor in the management of land and forests, and maintains that the continuing invisibility of women in these areas only compounds poverty, shortages, and the increased workloads of forest-based women.Based on fieldwork conducted in several forest societies in China, Thailand, India and Malaysia, the contributors explore the changes in gender relations within indigenous communities, fr...

In 2006, the Government of India promoted Aadhaar, a biometric identification system. The aim of the scheme was to establish a biometric registry to provide a unique identity to all individuals. It was expected that this would help poor women and men establish their identities so as to access various benefits. This book looks at the gender dimension of Aadhaar, studying the impact of the scheme especially on women and gender relationships, and...