ABSTRACT
Women’s land rights have become an issue in China’s drive for a modernized and harmonious society. Despite the absence of large-scale studies, researchers have documented situations where women who are out-married (meaning that they are married to a man from a village other than that in which they were born), divorced or widowed, or girls who are above the customary marriage age but remain single, have difficulty getting land either in their out-married village or in their village of birth (Li, 2002).
