Class Stratification and Cooperative Production Among Rural Women in Central Mexico

Isaac, Claudia B.

doi:10.1017/s0023879100017404

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“…At best, women were likely to be caretakers of the family patrimony until they passed along ejido rights to their sons. UAIMs were formed in only 9 to 15 percent of all ejidos (Deere and Leon 199~16), generally depended on ejido leadership to channel limited credit and funding (see Isaac 1995), and often failed to become functional (Stephen 199~172). No provision was made to assist women in defending their rights, which were often contested (see Stephen 199~172-88; Perez Prado 1998) or effectively ignored (Baitenmann 1998).…”

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Neoliberalism, Gender, and Property Rights in Rural Mexico

Hamilton

2002

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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The Mexican Constitution was revised in 1992 to foster privatization of agrarian reform lands. Legal inheritance protections for spouses were removed, and individual title holders (85 percent male) obtained rights to sell land formerly considered family patrimony. State disinvestment contributed to economic crisis in the land-reform sector. This longitudinal study of four communities in northern and central Mexico explores the counterintuitive effects of agrarian law, customary inheritance norms, and women's changing roles in household economies and community sociopolitics on the material and ideological bases for women's entitlement to land. Quantitative and qualitative data show that women's rights to land under customary inheritance norms were upheld locally and that women's control of family land increased along with growing responsibility for production and community activism. Women's property rights were enhanced rather than eroded as families and communities struggled to meet the economic and social challenges posed by the neoliberal agenda.

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Section: The Political-economic Context Of Gendered Property Rights U...mentioning

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Neoliberalism, Gender, and Property Rights in Rural Mexico

Hamilton

2002

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Marriage and the Family

Williamson¹

2006

Latin America

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Proximate Population Factors and Deforestation in Tropical Agricultural Frontiers

Carr

2003

Population and Environment

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Forest conversion for agriculture expansion is the most salient signature of human occupation of the earth's land surface. Although population growth and deforestation are significantly associated at the global and regional scales, evidence for population links to deforestation at micro-scales-where people are actually clearing0020forests-is scant. Much of the planet's forest elimination is proceeding along tropical agricultural frontiers. This article examines the evolution of thought on population-environment theories relevant to deforestation in tropical agricultural frontiers. Four primary ways by which population dynamics interact with frontier forest conversion are examined: population density, fertility, and household demographic composition, and in-migration.

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Class Stratification and Cooperative Production Among Rural Women in Central Mexico

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

Neoliberalism, Gender, and Property Rights in Rural Mexico

Neoliberalism, Gender, and Property Rights in Rural Mexico

Marriage and the Family

Proximate Population Factors and Deforestation in Tropical Agricultural Frontiers

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