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]
©2015
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Gender and Justice ; v. 1
Gender and Justice.
Subject:Women -- India -- Social conditions.
Marriage law -- India.
Women's rights -- India.
Rape -- India.
Family violence -- Law and legislation -- India.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Family violence -- Law and legislation.
Marriage law.
Rape.
Women -- Social conditions.
Women's rights.
Rechtssystem
Pluralismus
Familienrecht
Familiengerichtsverfahren
Urteilen
Hinduismus
Islam
Weltordnung
Häusliche Gewalt
Vergewaltigung
India.
Indien
Bangladesch
Kalkutta
Delhi
Dhaka
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Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11305569
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ISBN:052095811X
9780520958111
9780520282445
0520282442
9780520282452
0520282450
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Basu, Srimati. Trouble with marriage. 9780520282445 0520282442