"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 family courts and other crime and mediation settings in India, Srimati Basu reevaluates Indian feminist theories of marriage, gender violence, and the role of the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolutions, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, have created new subjectivities but have also ...
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"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 family courts and other crime and mediation settings in India, Srimati Basu reevaluates Indian feminist theories of marriage, gender violence, and the role of the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolutions, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, have created new subjectivities but have also reinforced oppressive socioeconomic norms that leave women no better off, individually or collectively. This volume examines the extent to which feminist visions of divorce, rape, and domestic violence law in India empower women and finds, paradoxically, that these alternative ideas actually reinforce women's economic and social inequality"--Provided by publisher.
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Very Good. Size: 6x0x9; Copyright 2015 with full number line. Very good paperback copy. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text is very good throughout. Light wear to wraps, light bump to front at head of spine. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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As New. Like New, Text is like new, Light wear to cover from storage. Otherwise, As New 266 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Women & Feminism; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0520282450. ISBN/EAN: 9780520282452. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561062273.
