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Baxi, Pratiksha,

Public secrets of law : Rape trials in India / Pratiksha Baxi. - First edition. - liv, 433 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-413) and index.

Contents: Doctrinal pictures of rape trials: how to do things with feminism --
Medicalization of consent and falsity: the figure of the Habitué in Indian rape law --
The child witness on trial --
Justice is a secret: compromise in rape trials --
Love affairs and rape trials in India --
On interpreting rape as/and atrocity.

ISBN: 9780198089568 (hbk.) 0198089562 (hbk.)

LCCN: 2013417875

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB410056 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016611816 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Rape--India.
Rape--Social aspects--India.

LC Class. No.: KNS4202 / .B39 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 345.540253 BAX-1