The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India Volume 1 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520282445)

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 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: 0520282442
ISBN-13: 9780520282445
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2015
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 02/06/2015 pg. 17