Women's Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam

by Tinker, Irene

• ISBN13: 9781555878177
• ISBN10: 1555878172
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-31
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Author Biography

Tran Thi Van Anh is a researcher at the Center for Family and Women's Studies in Hanoi, Vietnam Nahid Aslanbeigui is associate professor of economics at Monmouth University Bu Xin is chair of the research committee on living environment at the Beijing Sociological Association Thai Thi Ngoc Du is professor of geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities of Ho Chi Minh City and head of the Women's Studies Department at the Open University of Ho Chi Minh City Fei Juanhong is associate research professor of sociology at the Institute of Sociology at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Barbara Hopkins is assistant professor of economics and women's studies at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio W. Randall Ireson is development assistance coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee program in North Korea Carol Ireson-Doolittle is professor of sociology at Willamette University in Oregon Li Weisha is associate professor of sociology at the Hubei Academy of Social Sciences in China Li Zongmin received her Ph.D. in development studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997 Hoang Thi Lich is former vice director of the Center for Family and Women's Studies, National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, where she is senior researcher and a gender consultant and trainer Jean Larson Pyle is codirector of the Center for Women and Work and professor of economics in the Department of Regional Economic and Social Development at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell Jennifer Sowerwine is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California-Berkeley Gale Summerfield is director of the Office of Women in International Development and associate professor of human and community development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Irene Tinker is professor emerita at the University of California-Berkeley Manivone Viravong worked at the Ministry of Agriculture in Laos for many years. She is currently a consultant to the government on socioeconomic development, and she has one of the biggest plantation farms in Laos owned by an individual Dia Warren lived in South China and Hong Kong from 1990 to 1993. She holds dual graduate degrees in law and law and diplomacy and is currently a practicing attorney in Boston Wei Zhangling is full professor of sociology and academic member at the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing and is also president of the Family Ethics and Women's Development Research Centre

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
Irene Tinker
Gale Summerfield
Women's Empowerment Through Rights to House and Land	9	(18)
Irene Tinker
Economic Development, Housing, and the Family: Is the Singapore Approach a Appropriate Model?	27	(28)
Jean Larson Pyle
PART 1:VIETNAM
Women Influencing Housing in Ho Chi Minh City	55	(22)
Thai Thi Ngoc Du
Women's Access to Housing in Hanoi	77	(18)
Hoang Thi Lich
Women and Rural Land in Vietnam	95	(20)
Tran Thi Van Anh
Cultivating the Forest: Gendered Land Use Among the Tay in Northern Vietnam	115	(16)
Carol Ireson-Doolittle
W. Randall Ireson
New Land Rights and Women's Access to Medicinal Plants in Northern Vietnam	131	(14)
Jennifer Sowerwine
PART 2: LAOS
Gender and Changing Property Rights in Laos	145	(8)
Carol Ireson-Doolittle
Reforming Property Rights in Laos	153	(12)
Manivone Viravong
PART 3: CHINA
Chinese Women's Housing Rights: An International Legal Perspective	165	(14)
Dia Warren
Housing Reform in Urban China	179	(16)
Gale Summerfield
Nahid Aslanbeigui
The Impacts of Shanghai Housing Reform	195	(12)
Fei Juanhong
State and Market Provision of Housing in Shanghai	207	(16)
Barbara Hopkins
The Housing Situation for Women in Beijing	223	(8)
Wei Zhangling
Bu Xin
Changes in Housing Patterns for Rural Chinese Women	231	(10)
Li Weisha
Changing Land and Housing Use by Rural Women in Northern China	241	(32)
Li Zongmin
Conclusion	265	(8)
Irene Tinker
Gale Summerfield
Bibliography	273	(24)
The Contributors	297	(4)
Index	301	(4)
About the Book	305