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The Trouble with Marriage : Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India / Srimati Basu.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Basu, Srimati, Author.
- Series:
- Gender and Justice
- Gender and Justice ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--India--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Marriage law--India.
- Marriage law.
- Women's rights--India.
- Women's rights.
- Rape--Law and legislation--India.
- Rape.
- Family violence--Law and legislation--India.
- Family violence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, Srimati Basu depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolution, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, has created new subjectivities, but, paradoxically, has also reinforced oppressive socioeconomic norms that leave women no better off, individually or collectively.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Law, Marriage, and Feminist Reform
- Chapter 2. Construction Zones: Marriage Law in Formation
- Chapter 3. Beyond Equivalence: On Reading and Speaking Law
- Chapter 4. Justice Without Lawyers? Living the Family Court Experiment
- Chapter 5. In Sanity and in Wealth: Diagnosing Conjugality and Kinship
- Chapter 6. Sexual Property: Rape and Marriage Conjoined
- Chapter 7. Strategizing Spaces: Negotiating the Violence out of Domestic Violence Claims
- Chapter 8. The Trouble is Marriage: Conclusions and Worries
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780520282452
- 0520282450
- 9780520958111
- 052095811X
- OCLC:
- 897447224
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