The trouble with marriage [Texte imprimé] : feminists confront law and violence in India / Srimati Basu
نوع المادة : نصالسلاسل:Gender and justice (University of California Press, Oakland)تفاصيل النشر:Oakland : University of California Press, cop. 2015وصف:1 vol. (XIV-266 p.) : ill. ; 23 cmتدمك:- 978-0-520-28244-5
- 0-520-28244-2
- 306.840954 23E
- 306.8
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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Livre | Bibliothèque centrale En accès libre | 306.8 / 831 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | 1 | المتاح | 000005881062 |
Bibliogr. p. 239-256
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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