Women and Law

Critical Feminist Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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How should we approach the problem of "women and law"? Should the focus be on women-centred laws and their efficacy? Or should the focus be, instead, on the ways in which the law imagines women and the ways in which women have engaged with the law—spilling beyond fields traditionally associated with the phrase "women and law"? And how does violence figure in all these? Women and Law, a compilation of 11 insightful essays, examines these questions and a range of concerns—domestic violence, employment and labour, anti-discrimination jurisprudence, family laws, access to forest and land rights, the right to health, the complexities in the intersection of women’s rights with disability rights and women’s experiences of repressive legislation such as TADA. This volume attempts at a fresh mapping of the field of women and law from an interdisciplinary perspective and presents the work of activists, lawyers and scholars in conversation.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-04-30
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagSAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
ISBN9789353881511

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Kalpana Kannabiran is the recipient of the inaugural Amartya Sen Award for Social Scientists, 2012, for her work in Law. She is a sociologist and legal researcher and is currently Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, an autonomous research institute supported by the Indian Council for Social Science Research. She was awarded the VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research in the field of Social Aspects of Law by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) in 2003. She was part of the founding faculty of National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law where she taught sociology and law for a decade (1999–2009) and is a founder member of Asmita Resource Centre for Women where she has coordinated research and legal outreach for women. Kannabiran has been the general secretary of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies (1998–2000) and is active in the International Sociological Association. She was a member of the Expert Group on the Equal Opportunity Commission, Government of India (2007–2008) and member of the Expert Group on Legal Education Reform in Kerala, Government of Kerala. She has been an activist in the women’s movement since the late 1970s.

PrefaceIntroductionBringing Rights Home: Review of the Campaign for a Law on Domestic Violence - Indira JaisingConjugality, Property, Morality and Maintenance - Flavia AgnesWomen, Forestspaces and the Law: Transgressing the Boundaries - Sagari R RamdasWomen’s Rights and Entitlements to Land in South Asia: Changing Forms of Engagements - Meera VelayudhanOutside the Realm of Protective Legislation: The Saga of Unpaid Work in India - Padmini SwaminathanGender Equality at Workplace: A Frozen Agenda - D NagasailaJudicial Meanderings in Patriarchal Thickets: Litigating Sex Discrimination in India - Kalpana KannabiranWomen’s Health and Law in India: Trends of Hope and Despair - Shruti PandeyPrenatal Diagnosis: Where Do We Draw the Line? - Anita Ghai and Rachana JohriReligion, Feminist Politics and Muslim Women’s Rights in India - Zoya HasanWomen and State Violence: Where Is Justice? - Anita Tiphagne Index

Edited by Kalpana Kannabiran, this collection of 11 essays by eminent lawyers, activists and scholars seeks to ‘map the field of women and law from an interdisciplinary perspective’ and, in the process, puts forth on paper the continuing denial of justice to women under the Indian legal system. By painstakingly recording the process of every law taking shape, complete with cases and facts, they have documented a history that would otherwise have been ignored. The authors have also raised pertinent questions on gender justice often sought to be swept under the carpet by the system….apart from being a treasure-trove on gender justice, also offers plausible answers to a host of questions on women and law, without confounding us with legal jargon. That makes it a winner, hands down.