Negotiating Spaces

Legal Domains, Gender Concerns, and Community Constructs

Flavia Agnes, Shoba Venkatesh Ghosh, Majlis (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2012
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-807663-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Flavia Agnes is an Advocate and Founder-director of Majlis. Shoba Venkatesh Ghosh is Professor, Department of English University of Mumbai. Majlis is Centre for Women's Rights Discourse and Legal Initiatives.

INTRODUCTION; PART I: INDIAN WOMEN'S NEGOTIATIONS OVER INHERITANCE; PART II: PROPERTY NEGOTIATIONS DURING DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS; PART III: REGULATING MARRIAGES: COMMUNITY AND STATE INTERVENTIONS; PART IV: WOMEN'S NEGOTIATIONS WITHIN COMMUNITIES AND THE STATE; PART V: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, CRIMINAL PROCEDURES, AND NEGOTIATION OF RIGHTS; PART VI: NEGOTIATING 'VICE' AND 'IMMORALITY' THROUGH STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY STRUCTURES; INDEX

Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	145 x 221 mm
Gewicht	606 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-807663-0 / 0198076630
ISBN-13	978-0-19-807663-6 / 9780198076636
Zustand	Neuware