Table of Contents

1 Minding the Gap: Gender and Property Ownership

2 Locating Gender and Property in Development Discourse

3 Place Matters: Orientation to Research Location and Context

4 Complicated Lives: Urban Women and Multiple Vulnerabilities

5 Gendered Realities: Property Ownership and TenancyRelationships

6 Women and Housing Microfinance

7 Partnership Projects for Urban Basic Services

8 Conclusions: Seeing the Forest and the Trees

Appendices

Notes

References

Index

Promotional Information

This intimate exploration of the opportunities and constraints faced bylow-income women in securing access to property in Ahmedabad, asthroughout the Global South, carves out new intellectual space in thestudy of gender and development.

About the Author

Bipasha Baruah is an assistant professor ofinternational studies at California State University, Long Beach. Shehas also served as a gender specialist on CIDA's Eastern CaribbeanEconomic Management Program and as a consultant on gender andenvironmental issues to Foreign Affairs Canada.

Reviews

The Millennium Development Goals, a global social contract of sorts, have drawn attention to the stark reality of urban poverty across the world. While policy makers tackle issues of poverty, lack of services and infrastructure, violence, and marginality, almost none broach the issue of women's experiences in the city. Baruah's important book addresses this gap by providing a tangible outline of women's struggles to gain access to urban property, build assets, and thus to negotiate empowerment.
- Ananya Roy, author of Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development