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.

List of Tables. List of Figures. List of Boxes. Foreword Anne F. Stenhammer. Acknowledgements. Introduction Govind Kelkar and Maithreyi Krishnaraj. Part I. Land Rights for the Farming Women in Asia. 1. Policy Formulation, Law Reform and Women's Property Rights in South Asia Savitri Goonesekere 2. Gender Asset Gaps and Land Rights in the Context of the Asia-Pacific Region Rajini Menon and Preet Rustagi 3. Gender and Productive Assets: Implications for Women's Economic Security and Productivity Govind Kelkar. Part II. Farmers' Relationship to Land and Livestock. 4. Women's Ownership Rights and Access to Land in Bangladesh Sadeka Halim 5. Women's Land Rights in China: An Unpromising Future Wang Yunxian 6. Gender and Productive Resources: Nepal's Case of Landownership Ganesh Gurung 7. Women's Land Use Knowledge and Entitlement in Swidden Agriculture Govind Kelkar and Lily Wangchuk 8. Rules and Norms in Women's Access to Productive Resources: Ponds in Bangladesh Dev Nathan and Rownok Jahan 9. Gender and Livestock in Nagaland Rosemary Dzuvichu 10. Mal Chhe to Mobho Chhe: Livestock is Dignity for Us Lalji Desai. Part III. Women's Entitlement to Land and Productive Assets in India. 11. The Status of Indigenous Women and Land Rights in Jharkhand Samar Bosu Mullick 12. Land, Livestock and the Rights of Women in Rural India N. C. Saxena 13. Women's Entitlement to Land and Livestock inMatrilineal Meghalaya Patricia Mukhim 14. Changing Context of Women's Entitlement to Land in Gujarat Meera Velayudhan 15. Women's Landownership in Gujarat: What has Worked and What Needs to be Looked At! Sejal Dave 16. Women and Land Rights in Maharashtra Seema Kulkarni 17. Resistance and Struggle for Survival: