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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Moore, Erin P., 1951-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1998.
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.