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The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India Volume 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520282452)
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xThe 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 lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, Srimati Basu depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolution, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, has created new subjectivities, but, paradoxically, has also reinforced oppressive socioeconomic norms that leave women no better off, individually or collectively.
Author: Srimati Basu
ISBN-10: 0520282450
ISBN-13: 9780520282452
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2015
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.90w x 0.60d
Author: Srimati Basu
ISBN-10: 0520282450
ISBN-13: 9780520282452
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2015
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.90w x 0.60d
By Srimati Basu
xSrimati Basu is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety, the editor of Dowry and Inheritance (Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism series), and the coeditor of Conjugality Unbound: Sexual Economy and the Marital Form in India.
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