Keeping Women Out: Common Resources and Rural North-east India
These quotes have been selected from the article “Exclusive Commons: The Erosion of Women’s Agency in North East India,” that analyses the exclusion of women from common property resources, common lands, and common knowledge sharing spaces in rural Manipur and Nagaland.
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