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.

• 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

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.

• 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

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.

• 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