Bibliography of Selected Publications on Women’s Property Rights

• Bina Agarwal, A Field of one’s own: gender and property in South Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
  
  
• Bina Agarwal, “Gender, Property, and Land Rights: Bridging a Cricical Gap in Economic Analysis and Policy,” in Kelly D. Askin and Dorean M. Koenig, Women and International Human Rights Law, Vol. 3 (2001)
  
  
• Marjolein Benschop, Rights and Reality: Are Women’s Equal Rights to Land, Housing and Property Implemented in East Africa? (Nairobi: United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2002)
  
  
• Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, Sources 2: Selected Bibliography on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE: Geneva, 2001)
  
  
• Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, Sources 4: Legal Resources for Housing Rights: International and National Standards (COHRE: Geneva, 2000)
  
  
• Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, Sources 5: Women and Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE: Geneva, 2000)
  
  
• Leilani Farha, “Is There a Woman in the House? Re/conceiving the Human Right to Housing,” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vo. 14, No. 1 (2002)
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “Gender and Access to Land,” FAO Land Tenure Studies No. 4 (FAO: Rome, 2002)
  
  
• Patricia Kameri-Mbote, “Gender Dimensions of Law, Colonialism and Inheritance in East Africa: Kenyan Women’s Experiences,” IELC Working Paper No. 2001-1 (2002)
  
  
• Kenya Human Rights Commission, Women and Land Rights in Kenya (Nairobi: Kenya Human Rights Commission, 2000)
  
  
• Kivutha Kibwana and Lawrence Mute, Law and the Quest for Gender Equality in Kenya (Nairobi: Clairpress Limited, 2000)
  
  
• K. Komjathy, Women’s access to benefits from land and natural resources. A bibliography (Rome: Land Tenure Service, FAO, 1999)
  
  
• A.J. Njoh, “Urban planning, housing and the socio-economic development of women in a developing country,” Planning Perspectives, Vol. 13 (1998)
  
  
• Akinyi Nzioki, “The Effects of Land Tenure on Women’s Access and Control of Land in Kenya,” in Abdullahi A. An-Na’im, Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa (New York: Zed Books Ltd., 2002)
  
  
• Celestine Nyamu-Musembi, “Are Local Norms and Practices Fences or Pathways? The Example of Women’s Property Rights, in in Abdullahi A. An-Na’im, Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa (New York: Zed Books Ltd., 2002)
  
  
• Oxfam, Gender Perspectives on Property and Inheritance: A Global Sourcebook (Amsterdam: Kit Publishers, 2001)
  
  
• Margaret Rugadya and Harriet Busingye (eds.), Gender Perspectives in the Land Reform Process in Uganda (Kampala: Uganda Land Alliance, 2002)
  
  
• United Nations Development Fund for Women, “Women’s land and property rights in Situations of Conflict and Reconstruction,” A Reader based on the Feb, 1998 Inter-Regional Consultation in Kigali, Rwanda (2001)
  
  
• Smokin C. Wanjala, Essays on Land Law: The Reform Debate in Kenya (Nairobi: Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi, 2000)
  
  
• L. Muthoni Wanyeki, Women and Land in Africa: Culture, Religion, and Realizing Women’s Rights (London: Zed Books, 2003)
  
  

See also Oxfam resource bank on land rights in Africa at http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/resource.htm