Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: women and property
- Part I Politics, economy and kinship
- Part II The dower
- Part III Paid labour and property
- 7 Poverty, wage labour and property
- 8 Gender and garment production
- 9 Education, professional work and property
- 10 Women and property revisited
- References
- Index
10 - Women and property revisited
from Part III - Paid labour and property
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: women and property
- Part I Politics, economy and kinship
- Part II The dower
- Part III Paid labour and property
- 7 Poverty, wage labour and property
- 8 Gender and garment production
- 9 Education, professional work and property
- 10 Women and property revisited
- References
- Index
Summary
The previous chapters discuss the different perspectives expressed by women in the Jabal Nablus region in regard to property and the various strategies they follow. Over time, a major trend has been the partial transition from dower to paid labour as a central mechanism for women to gain access to property. This trend ties in with the greater emphasis on the conjugal bond, rather than on kinship (the natal family) as a main source of women's socio-economic security. At the same time, this study qualifies such generalisations by pointing to the importance of focusing on the situated meanings of women and property, and to the mutiple positions women take up with regard to property. In these last pages I will bring together two lines of argument on women, power, and property. First I will discuss how changes in the construction of the gendered person may both be the effect of power relations and have consequences for women's access to property. Then I will shift the focus to the lived experiences of individual women, linking the multiplicity of their positions to the way in which these are infused with power. Finally, I will briefly return to some issues raised in the introduction.
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- Women, Property and IslamPalestinian Experiences, 1920–1990, pp. 253 - 260Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996