Carla Risseeuw graduated as an anthropologist from Leiden University and obtained her Ph.D. from Nijmegan University, The Netherlands. She has worked in Ireland, Kenya and Sri Lanka both as an anthropologist and film maker (main film made together with Amara Amersinghe in 1985, is entitled ‘The Wrong End of the Rope’. It deals with the life and organisation of coir workers in Sri Lanka and won several awards).

• Acknowledg xiii Abbreviations xvi Introduction 1 PART I Chapter 1: Transformation in Women’s Access 11 – 71 Chapter 2: Transformation in Peasant Women’s Access to Paid 74 – 129 PART II Chapter 3 Gender Property and Power 135 – 181 PART III Chapter 4 Women and Power today 205 – 276 Chapter 5 Resistance and Organisation 284 – 350 Annex 1: 359 Annex 2 Table on Variation 372 Annex 3 A Women’s letter 373 Glossary 375 Bibliography 376 Index 397

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Carla Risseeuw graduated as an anthropologist from Leiden University and obtained her Ph.D. from Nijmegan University, The Netherlands. She has worked in Ireland, Kenya and Sri Lanka both as an anthropologist and film maker (main film made together with Amara Amersinghe in 1985, is entitled ‘The Wrong End of the Rope’. It deals with the life and organisation of coir workers in Sri Lanka and won several awards).

• Acknowledg xiii Abbreviations xvi Introduction 1 PART I Chapter 1: Transformation in Women’s Access 11 – 71 Chapter 2: Transformation in Peasant Women’s Access to Paid 74 – 129 PART II Chapter 3 Gender Property and Power 135 – 181 PART III Chapter 4 Women and Power today 205 – 276 Chapter 5 Resistance and Organisation 284 – 350 Annex 1: 359 Annex 2 Table on Variation 372 Annex 3 A Women’s letter 373 Glossary 375 Bibliography 376 Index 397

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Carla Risseeuw graduated as an anthropologist from Leiden University and obtained her Ph.D. from Nijmegan University, The Netherlands. She has worked in Ireland, Kenya and Sri Lanka both as an anthropologist and film maker (main film made together with Amara Amersinghe in 1985, is entitled ‘The Wrong End of the Rope’. It deals with the life and organisation of coir workers in Sri Lanka and won several awards).

• Acknowledg xiii Abbreviations xvi Introduction 1 PART I Chapter 1: Transformation in Women’s Access 11 – 71 Chapter 2: Transformation in Peasant Women’s Access to Paid 74 – 129 PART II Chapter 3 Gender Property and Power 135 – 181 PART III Chapter 4 Women and Power today 205 – 276 Chapter 5 Resistance and Organisation 284 – 350 Annex 1: 359 Annex 2 Table on Variation 372 Annex 3 A Women’s letter 373 Glossary 375 Bibliography 376 Index 397

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