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| Author | : Rachel E. Brulé |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2020-10-22 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108870600 |
Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this question within the context of India, the world's largest democracy. Brulé employs a research design that maximizes causal inference alongside extensive field research to explain the relationship between political representation, backlash, and economic empowerment. Her findings show that women in government – gatekeepers – catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to property. Women in politics have the power to support constituent rights at critical junctures, such as marriage negotiations, when they can strike integrative solutions to intrahousehold bargaining. Yet there is a paradox: quotas are essential for enforcement of rights, but they generate backlash against women who gain rights without bargaining leverage. In this groundbreaking study, Brulé shows how well-designed quotas can operate as a crucial tool to foster equality and benefit the women they are meant to empower.
| Author | : Sanjiv Narang |
| Publisher | : Sanjiv Narang |
| Total Pages | : 149 |
| Release | : 2021-03-12 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : |
This book lays down the critical family, personal and criminal laws which are specific to women. The challenge in law is that it is bigger than the seven seas. It is very easy to get lost in this sea. This book is designed to help women understand and navigate through the vastness of the laws applicable to them instead of getting lost and misguided in the legal sea. The knowledge of these relevant laws along with the landmark cases where they are applied will enable women to understand and apply these laws in their lives. This would empower them to utilize and leverage the power of the law.
| Author | : Christine Forster |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2019-08-28 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1000228053 |
This book focuses on women’s human rights in India. Drawing on case studies, it provides a clear overview of the key sources on gender and rights in the country. Further, it contextualizes women’s rights at the critical intersection of caste, religion and class, and analyses barriers to the realization of women’s human rights in practice. It also develops strategies for moving forward towards greater recognition, protection, promotion and fulfilment of women’s human rights in India. Drawing on critical pedagogical tools to analyse groundbreaking court cases, this book will be a key text in human rights studies. It will be indispensable to students, scholars and researchers of gender studies, sociology, law and human rights.
| Author | : Nalin Mehta |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 685 |
| Release | : 2024-07-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1040127169 |
This book examines how the BJP became the world’s largest political party. It goes beyond the usual narrative of the party’s Hindutva politics to explain how, under Narendra Modi, the party reshaped the Indian polity using its own brand of social engineering. According to the findings of this book, this reconstruction was cleverly powered by new caste coalitions, the claim of a new welfare state that focused on marginalised social groups and the making of a women-voter base. Based on data from three unique indices—the Mehta–Singh Social Index, which studies the caste composition of Indian political parties; the Narad Index, which calculates communication patterns across topics and audiences; and PollNiti, which connects and tallies hundreds of political and economic datasets—The New BJP is full of startling insights into the way both the party and the country function. Previously untapped historical records, exclusive interviews with party leaders and comprehensive reportage from across India provide a fresh understanding of the BJP’s growth areas, including the Northeast and south India. A lucid and objective study of the BJP and India today, this book will be useful to researchers, journalists, students, activists and general public alike. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka).
| Author | : Ashwini Tambe |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2019-10-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0252051580 |
At what age do girls gain the maturity to make sexual choices? This question provokes especially vexed debates in India, where early marriage is a widespread practice. India has served as a focal problem site in NGO campaigns and intergovernmental conferences setting age standards for sexual maturity. Over the last century, the country shifted the legal age of marriage from twelve, among the lowest in the world, to eighteen, at the high end of the global spectrum. Ashwini Tambe illuminates the ideas that shaped such shifts: how the concept of adolescence as a sheltered phase led to delaying both marriage and legal adulthood; how the imperative of population control influenced laws on marriage age; and how imperial moral hierarchies between nations provoked defensive postures within India. Tambe takes a transnational feminist approach to legal history, showing how intergovernmental debates influenced Indian laws and how expert discourses in India changed UN terminology about girls. Ultimately, Tambe argues, the well-meaning focus on child marriage has been tethered less to the interests of girls themselves and more to parents’ interests, achieving population control targets, and preserving national reputation.
| Author | : Rebecca J. Cook |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 649 |
| Release | : 2012-03-10 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0812201663 |
Rebecca J. Cook and the contributors to this volume seek to analyze how international human rights law applies specifically to women in various cultures worldwide, and to develop strategies to promote equitable application of human rights law at the international, regional, and domestic levels. Their essays present a compelling mixture of reports and case studies from various regions in the world, combined with scholarly assessments of international law as these rights specifically apply to women.
| Author | : Dr Geetanjali Gangoli |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2012-12-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1409490742 |
Contributing to debates on feminism, this book considers the impact made by feminists in India from the 1970s. Geetanjali Gangoli analyses feminist campaigns on issues of violence and women’s rights, and debates on ways in which feminist legal debates may be limiting for women and based on exclusionary concepts such as citizenship. She addresses campaigns ranging from domestic violence, rape, pornography and son preference and sets them within a wider analysis of the position of women within the Indian state. The strengths and limitations of law reform for women are addressed as well as whether legal feminisms relating to law and women's legal rights are effective in the Indian context. The question of whether legal campaigns can make positive changes in women’s lives or whether they further legitimize oppressive state patriarchies is considered. The recasting of caste and community identities is also assessed, as well as the rise of Hindu fundamentalism and the ways in which feminists in India have combated and confronted these challenges. Indian Feminisms will interest researchers and students in the areas of feminism, law, women’s movements and social movements in India, and South Asia more generally.
| Author | : Bina Agarwal |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Inheritance and succession |
| ISBN | : |
Focuses on the Hindu Succession Act of 1956.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9789390513710 |
| Author | : Sital Kalantry |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2017-07-03 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 081224933X |
In Women's Human Rights and Migration, Sital Kalantry examines the laws to ban sex-selective abortion in the United States and India to argue for a transnational feminist legal approach to evaluating prohibitions on the practices of immigrant women that raise human rights concerns.
