Domestic Violence in Pakistan
The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 May 2025
- ISBN 9780198953449
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 223x146x22 mm
- Weight 437 g
- Language English 589
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Short description:
Pakistani women are increasingly pursuing legal action against domestic violence, but their claims are often dismissed through character allegations. This book examines how women's victimhood is constructed and negotiated in the legal system, drawing on feminist theory and extensive case analysis.
MoreLong description:
Pakistani women are increasingly pursuing legal avenues against acts of domestic violence. Their claims, however, are often dismissed through character allegations that label them as 'bad' women in need of control, or 'mad' women not to be trusted. Domestic Violence in Pakistan explores why the subjectivities of women victims are constructed in particular ways, and how these subjectivities are captured and negotiated in the Pakistani legal system.
Drawing on feminist poststructuralist accounts relating to the use of gendering strategies in institutional and disciplinary settings and based on an analysis of over a hundred case files and judgements, seventy-two interviews, and court observations in three cities of Pakistan, this book shadows the experiences of women victims of domestic violence in both criminal law and family law proceedings. It captures and offers empirical insights in relation to gendered subject formation in discursive spaces; ranging from the use of societal narratives that minimise and silence women's harms, to the deployment of police mechanisms that assist in maintaining the 'secrecy' of familial violence, and the application and enactment of boilerplate lawyerly strategies to present alternative legal 'truths.'
Amidst regulations of the public versus the private and understandings of rights versus duties, Domestic Violence in Pakistan explores how these practices construct the victim-subject of domestic violence in a way that not only subjectivise her, but also secure her within the field of that subjectification; setting her up to be viewed by the judiciary through the lens of the allegations applied to her.
Table of Contents:
Domestic violence in Pakistan
Navigating the construction of victim-subjects
Silencing victim-subjects: Gendered narratives
Policing victim-subjects: Gatekeeping approaches
Scripting victim-subjects: Lawyerly practices
Enacting victim-subjects: Anticipative performances
‘Bad’, ‘mad’, both, or neither?
