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

"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 m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Basu, Srimati (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Colección:Gender and Justice.
Temas:
Women > India > Social conditions.
Marriage law > India.
Women's rights > India.
Rape > India.
Family violence > Law and legislation > India.
Femmes > Inde > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Droits > Inde.
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
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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