The scandal of the state : Women, law and citizenship in postcolonial India

By:

Rajan Rajeswari Sunder

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Publication details: Delhi Permanent Black 2003Description: 313p xiiiISBN:

9780822330356

Subject(s):

1. Women - Legal Status - Laws - India.2. Women - Government Policy - India3. Women Rights - Citizenship - India

DDC classification:

305.420000 RAJ

Contents:

Table of contents Preface ix; Acknowledgments xiii; 1. Introduction: Women, Citizenship, Law, and the Indian State 1; I. Women in Custody; 2. The Ameena "Case": The Female Citizen and Subject 41; 3. Beyond the Hysterectomies Scandal: Women, the Institution, Family, and State 72; II. Women in Law; 4. The Prostitution Question(s): Female Agency, Sexuality, and Work 117; 5. Women Between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform Civil Code Debates 147; III. Killing Women; 6. Children of the State?: Unwanted Girls in Rural Tamilnadu 177; 7. Outlaw Woman: The Politics of Phoolan Devi's Surrender, 1983 212; Notes 237; References 279; Index 301

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKs	National Law School	305.42 RAJ (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		19396

Table of contents
Preface ix;
Acknowledgments xiii;
1. Introduction: Women, Citizenship, Law, and the Indian State 1;
I. Women in Custody;
2. The Ameena "Case": The Female Citizen and Subject 41;
3. Beyond the Hysterectomies Scandal: Women, the Institution, Family, and State 72;
II. Women in Law;
4. The Prostitution Question(s): Female Agency, Sexuality, and Work 117;
5. Women Between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform Civil Code Debates 147;
III. Killing Women;
6. Children of the State?: Unwanted Girls in Rural Tamilnadu 177;
7. Outlaw Woman: The Politics of Phoolan Devi's Surrender, 1983 212;
Notes 237;
References 279;
Index 301

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