Trouble With Marriage - Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India

"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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Srimati Basu, Basu Srimati
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2015
• EAN: 9780520282452
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28245-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Gender and Justice; Gender and Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LAW / Family Law / Divorce & Separation, India, LAW / Family Law / Marriage, Sociology: family & relationships, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: family and relationships, Family Law: Marriage & Divorce, Family law: marriage, separation and divorce