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The Trouble With Marriage : Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India / Srimati Basu.
Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780520282445 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520282442 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780520282452 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0520282450 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 306.8409 BAS 23
- HQ1742 .B394 2015
Contents:
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.
Content:
Introduction:
Law, marriage and feminist reform;
Construction zones;
marriage law in formation;
Beyond equivalence;
on reading and speaking law;
Justice without lawyers;
everyday law in the Kolkata family court;
Diagnosing marriages;
conjugality and kinship in the courts;
Sexual property : rape and marriage conjoined;
Strategizing spaces : domestic violence claims between courts, police and NGOs
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| 306.44 DEV Voice and memory : | 306.449 MIT Language, emotion, and politics in south India : | 306.7409 SHA Street corner secrets : | 306.8409 BAS-2 The Trouble With Marriage : | 307.10954 KAL Chandigarh : The making of an Indian city | 307.12 FOR The deliberative practitioner | 307.1209 BHA Companion to planning in the global South / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-256) and index.
Content:
Introduction:
Law, marriage and feminist reform;
Construction zones;
marriage law in formation;
Beyond equivalence;
on reading and speaking law;
Justice without lawyers;
everyday law in the Kolkata family court;
Diagnosing marriages;
conjugality and kinship in the courts;
Sexual property : rape and marriage conjoined;
Strategizing spaces : domestic violence claims between courts, police and NGOs
"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.
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