The Trouble with Marriage (eBook)

Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India

Srimati Basu (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
280 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95811-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, Srimati Basu depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolution, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, has created new subjectivities, but, paradoxically, has also reinforced oppressive socioeconomic norms that leave women no better off, individually or collectively.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Law, Marriage, and Feminist Reform
2. Construction Zones: Marriage Law in Formation
3. Beyond Equivalence: On Reading and Speaking Law
4. Justice without Lawyers? Living the Family Court Experiment
5. In Sanity and in Wealth: Diagnosing Conjugality and Kinship
6. Sexual Property: Rape and Marriage Conjoined
7. Strategizing Spaces: Negotiating the Violence out of Domestic Violence Claims
8. The Trouble Is Marriage: Conclusions and Worries

Notes
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.1.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and Justice
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and Justice
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • Dispute Resolution • Domestic violence • Empowerment • ethnography • family courts • female empowerment • Feminism • feminist • feminist theory • Gender • gender and justice series • Gender and Women Studies • gender discrimination • Gender Studies • global feminism • India • Law • legal concerns • Legal Environment • legal sites • Legal system • marital trouble • marriage • Marriage and family • marriage in india • Marriage Law • Oppression • property • Rape • socioeconomic norms • Sociology • Violence
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95811-X / 052095811X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95811-1 / 9780520958111