In much of rural China, if a woman marries someone from outside her village, she becomes a married-out woman. To the village, she is no longer a member, even if she continues to live there.
Women are finding each other to confront a longstanding custom of denying them land rights, all because of whom they had married.
Now, women are fighting back, in a rare bright spot for women's rights and civil society. They are filing lawsuits and petitioning officials.
The conviction that they should be treated more fairly, compounded by the government's increasing recognition of their rights, has energized these women.
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