Dowry is a Serious Economic Violence

Rethinking Dowry Law in India

Shalu Nigam (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-1270-8 (ISBN)

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This book is about the prevailing practices of dowry, its mechanisms, and the dowry laws as they exist in India. It argues that the practice of dowry is evolving in the commercialized neoliberal era, while the law has failed to keep pace with the socio-economic changes. Dowry, as it is practiced today, involves gruesome economic violence, including extortion, blackmail, holding women hostage for extracting money, and exploitation of women and their families. The current legal framework ignores this triad of oppression consisting of compulsive, arbitrary dowry demands, coercion, and dowry-related violence. Therefore, this work suggests a multipronged approach to ending the culture of dowry violence with impunity. It recommends fixing the accountability of the perpetrators of violence, developing strategies to support the survivors, transforming the patriarchal culture, and rethinking the socio-legal discourse surrounding dowry violence at the national and global level.

Shalu Nigam is a feminist advocate, researcher, and activist working at the intersection of gender, law, governance, and human rights issues. She has completed her PhD in Social Work and obtained a law degree. Her interdisciplinary work relates to violence against women, access to justice, legal awareness, training, gender sensitization, and paralegal literacy. She is currently practicing at the courts in Delhi and is associated with the human rights and women's rights movements in India. She is also networking with thinktanks, research organizations and grassroots organizations such as the People's Union for Civil Liberties, Delhi, the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, the Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi, and IMPRI, New Delhi. She was awarded a senior fellowship by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. Some of her recent publications include: The Founding Mothers: 15 Women Architects of the Indian Constitution (co-author, 2016), Women and Domestic Violence Law in India: A Quest for Justice (2019), and Domestic Violence Law in India: Myth and Misogyny (2021).

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-0364-1270-9 / 1036412709
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-1270-8 / 9781036412708
Zustand	Neuware