The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India

The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India image
ISBN-10:

8125058648

ISBN-13:

9788125058649

Author(s): SRIMATI BASU
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
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Description:

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.











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