Feminist Terrains in Legal Domains
Author | : Ratna Kapur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Contributed articles.
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Author | : Ratna Kapur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Contributed articles.
Author | : Ratna Kapur, (ed.) |
Publisher | : Zubaan |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1996-12-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9390514150 |
The essays in this volume explore the relatively new field of women and law from interdisciplinary, feminist perspectives and help to develop an understanding of feminist legal studies in India. As a collection, the book offers insights about women and law as addressed by feminists from the standpoint of both legal and non-legal disciplines. Individually, the different essays explore the legal terrain through historical and cultural analyses of issues such as women’s human rights, gender discrimination, feminist legal scholarship, prostitution, conjugality and the representation of female outlaws in cinema. This varied and contextualised approach explodes the understanding of law as an objective, external, neutral truth. Instead, each writer lays open the contradictory nature of law and shows how it frequently becomes a site of political and ideological struggle.
Author | : Harald Fischer-Tiné |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843310929 |
A fresh and stimulating examination of the ideology, programmes, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia.
Author | : Rajeswari Sunder Rajan |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2003-04-09 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780822330486 |
Women in custody -- Women in law -- Killing women.
Author | : Esha Niyogi De |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2011-09-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0199088500 |
Drawing lessons from the intersection of literature, photography, cinema, television, dance-drama, and choreography, this book presents a unique analysis of Indian activist thought spread over two centuries. In this wide-spanning work, Esha Niyogi De argues that the 'individual' has been creatively indigenized in modern non-Western cultures: thinkers attentive to gender in postcolonial cultures embrace selected ethical premises of the Enlightenment and its human rights discourse while they refuse possessive individualism. Debating influential schools of postcolonial and transnational studies, she weaves her radical argument through a rich tapestry of gender portrayals drawn from two moments of modern Indian thought: the rise of humanism in the colony and the growth of new individualism in contemporary liberalized India. From autobiographical texts by nineteenth-century Bengali prostitutes, point-of-view photography, as well as woman-centred dance-dramas and essays by Rabindranath Tagore to representations of Tagore's works on mainstream television, video, and stage; feminist cinema, choreography, and performance by Aparna Sen and Manjusri Chaki-Sircar respectively—the book makes use of these and much more to creatively engage with empire, media, and gender.
Author | : Adrien Katherine Wing |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2000-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 081479338X |
An anthology containing some 30 essays which focus on topics including a critique of American feminist legal scholarship; motherhood and work in cultural context; Josephine Baker and the Cold War; the campaign against female circumcision; violence against Aboriginal women in Australia; and "marketization" and the status of women in China. Includes a foreword by social justice activist and professor at the U. of California-Santa Cruz, Angela Y. Davis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Juliette Duara |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2017-10-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351782614 |
For a judiciary in a democracy, dispensing justice is not only about doing justice, but also about showing that justice is being done; it is about giving reasons and creating a "culture of justification". The question becomes how to nurture such a culture. A number of liberal democratic jurisdictions have answered this question in part with the adoption of the multi-step method of evaluating the constitutionality of legislative infringements on fundamental rights widely known as Proportionality Analysis. Under Proportionality Analysis courts must engage in a structured process of reasoning. This book deals with Gender Justice and Proportionality Analysis in India. The author argues that the Supreme Court of India should consider adopting Proportionality Analysis for the adjudication of the fundamental right to sex equality in Indian courts. The book includes an analysis of Canadian and South African Proportionality Analysis and makes some suggestions on how an Indian Proportionality Analysis could be generated using this comparative investigation. Additionally, the book proposes ways of applying the effects of socio-political context on doctrine, as well as doctrine’s interpretive impact on adjudicated outcomes for gender, thus making a contribution to feminist jurisprudence. Finally, the author analyses Indian gender equality jurisprudence, demonstrating the inadequacies of the current doctrinal framework for achieving the goal of substantive gender equality and suggesting ways in which an Indian Proportionality Analysis might be fashioned to address these inadequacies. A novel examination of the gender situation in India in comparative perspective, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Gender Studies, Asian and Comparative Law and South Asian studies.
Author | : Taisha Abraham |
Publisher | : Har-Anand Publications |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9788124108475 |
Contributed articles on crimes against women in India.
Author | : Janaki Nair |
Publisher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2000-10 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781856498920 |
The essays in this volume develop an understanding of the institutions, practices and forms of representation of Indian sexual relations and their boundaries of legitimacy.
Author | : Maroona Murmu |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199098212 |
Words of Her Own situates the experiences and articulations of emergent women writers in nineteenth-century Bengal through an exploration of works authored by them. Based on a spectrum of genres—such as autobiographies, novels, and travelogues—this book examines the sociocultural incentives that enabled the dawn of middle-class Hindu and Brahmo women authors at that time. Murmu explores the intersections of class, caste, gender, language, and religion in these works. Reading these texts within a specific milieu, Murmu sets out to rectify the essentialist conception of women’s writings being a monolithic body of works that displays a firmly gendered form and content, by offering rich insights into the complex world of subjectivities of women in colonial Bengal. In attempting to do so, this book opens up the possibility of reconfiguring mainstream history by questioning the scholarly conceptualization of patriarchy being omnipotent enough to shape the intricacies of gender relations, resulting in the flattening of self-fashioning by women writers. The book contends that there were women authors who flouted the norms of literary aesthetics and tastes set by male literati, thereby creating a literary tradition of their own in Bangla and becoming agents of history at the turn of the century.