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The trouble with marriage : feminists confront law and violence in India / Srimati Basu.
LIBRA HQ1742 .B394 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Basu, Srimati, author.
- Series:
- Gender and justice.
- Gender and justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--India--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Family violence--Law and legislation.
- Rape.
- India.
- Social conditions.
- Marriage law--India.
- Marriage law.
- Women's rights--India.
- Women's rights.
- Rape--India.
- Family violence--Law and legislation--India.
- Family violence.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- "The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than solution. In this ethnography of family courts and other crime and mediation settings in India, Srimati Basu reevaluates Indian feminist theories of marriage, gender violence, and the role of the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolutions, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, have created new subjectivities but have also reinforced oppressive socioeconomic norms that leave women no better off, individually or collectively. This volume examines the extent to which feminist visions of divorce, rape, and domestic violence law in India empower women and finds, paradoxically, that these alternative ideas actually reinforce women's economic and social inequality"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : law, marriage and feminist reform
- Construction zones : marriage law in formation
- Beyond equivalence : on reading and speaking law
- Justice without lawyers? : living the family court experiment
- In sanity and in wealth : diagnosing conjugality and kinship
- Sexual property : rape and marriage conjoined
- Strategizing spaces : negotiating the violence out of domestic violence claims
- The trouble is marriage : conclusions and worries
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520282445
- 0520282442
- 9780520282452
- 0520282450
- OCLC:
- 884315792
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