The trouble with marriage : feminists confront law and violence in India /

The trouble with marriage : feminists confront law and violence in India /

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Author / Creator:	Basu, Srimati, author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Description:	xiv, 266 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Gender and justice ; 1 Gender and justice (University of California Press) ; 1.
Subject:	Women -- India -- Social conditions. Marriage law -- India. Women's rights -- India. Rape -- India. Family violence -- Law and legislation -- India. Family violence -- Law and legislation. Marriage law. Rape. Women -- Social conditions. Women's rights. India.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10130891

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ISBN:	9780520282445 0520282442 9780520282452 0520282450 9780520958111 052095811X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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