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

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-520-28245-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 280 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 394 g

Reihe: Gender and Justice

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Basu, Srimati

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Srimati Basu is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety, the editor of Dowry and Inheritance (Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism series), and the coeditor of Conjugality Unbound: Sexual Economy and the Marital Form in India.