Testamentary freedom, patriarchy and inheritance of the family farm in Australia

The Line of Descent in the Intergenerational Transmission of Domestic Property

“…This system has led market property (i.e. capital) to be transmitted patrilineally (Voyce, 1994). The very high material value placed on this property has led patriarchy to strongly in uence the ownership and control of this resource, although legal assaults are now being made on the injustice of this practice.…”

“…The very high material value placed on this property has led patriarchy to strongly in uence the ownership and control of this resource, although legal assaults are now being made on the injustice of this practice. In Australia, for example, daughters who have played important roles in running family farms are now successfully countering, through the courts, their fathers' decisions to pass the property on to sons as the sole bene ciaries (Voyce, 1994).…”

Understanding the strategic decisions women make in farming families

“…They also noted that their generation was not given the career information, encouragement and options at school that are more normal today. There is also a norm that sons should inherit the farm (Voyce, 1994) leaving marriage, rather than personal ownership, as an important entry point for women into farming.…”

Access rights for outdoor recreation in New Zealand: some lessons for open country in England and Wales

“…Rights to land, viewed as environmental and cultural capital, have been less fully considered. In respect of land as environmental and cultural capital, conceptualisations of rights have been more fully grounded in social processes, often being characterised as rights of citizenship (Salamon, 1993;Voyce, 1994;Munton, 1995).…”