Gender, Law, and Resistance in India /
Gender, Law, and Resistance in India dramatically illustrates how a patriarchal ideology is upheld and reinforced through male-governed social and legal institutions and how women defy that control. Ultimately an account of cultural hegemony and defiance, Gender, Law, and Resistance in India reveals...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
1998.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The positioned self
- Law's patriarchy
- History and power
- The case of the "stolen" wife
- Legal pluralism
- Domestic resistance
- Panchayat discourse
- Gendered justice
- The somatization of conflict.