Negotiating Spaces
Legal Domains, Gender Concerns, and Community Constructs
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 13 September 2012
- ISBN 9780198076636
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 221x145x32 mm
- Weight 606 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book examines important issues pertaining to women's rights. It provides a broad perspective on how women negotiate myriad challenges that they face from family, community, and State.
MoreLong description:
Laws protecting women are based on the belief that gender sensitive statutory laws can protect women better than the laws based on community practices of patriarchal traditions. However, in India these two sets of laws constantly overlap. This volume analyses the impact of such laws on women's rights and studies the interventionist role of courts. The essays explore the contradictions that Indian women face when it comes to choosing between the formal state laws and community based laws. They also examine how women negotiate spaces within their public and private lives. The book highlights the compromises women make while facing challenges from the State, community, and family. Focusing on the legal domain, the volume provides insights into the laws related to domestic violence, property rights, matrimonial rights, and rape. It also critically analyses the laws related to sexual morality by focusing on the recent case of bar dancers.
This book will be of interest to lawyers, social workers, human and women's rights activists, and policymakers. It will also be useful for researchers and teachers of law, politics, sociology, and gender studies.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART I: Indian Women's Negotiations over Inheritance
Beyond Property Refusal: Indian Women's Discourses of Inheritance by Srimati Basu
Negotiating Rights and Relationships: Muslim Women and Inheritance by Nasreen Fazalbhoy
PART II: Property Negotiations during Divorce Proceedings
Bargaining in the Shadow of Law: Negotiating Property Rights in Divorce Proceedings by Flavia Agnes
Women's Engagement with Matrimonial Property Law in Goa by Albertina Almeida
PART III: Regulating Marriages: Community and State Interventions
Crossing Communities: Religious Conversion, Rights in Marriage and Personal Law by Samita Sen
PART IV: Women's Negotiations within Communities and the State
Local and Customary Forums: Adapting and Innovating Rules of Formal Law by Vasudha Nagaraj
Towards Understanding Muslim Social Reform: Jamait-ul-Mommat and its Fatwas for Women by A. Suneetha
Abortion: Feminist Dilemmas by Nivedita Menon
PART V: Violence against Women, Criminal Procedures, and Negotiation of Rights
Listening to Women's Voices: Domestic Violence and Women's Negotiations with Law and Public Institutions by Anjali Dave
Justice is a Secret: 'Compromise' in Rape Trials by Pratiksha Baxi
PART VI: Negotiating 'Vice' and 'Immorality' through State and Civil Society Structures
Women in Sex Work: Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad (VAMP) by Meena Seshu
Citizenship at the Margins: Balancing Visibility and Invisibility: The Case of the Bar Dancer by Flavia Agnes
Waving the 'Colour Purple' in the Rainbow Parade by Chayanika Shah
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