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Women and Law in India

Women and Law in India

Author: Flavia Agnes; Sudhir Chandra; Monmayee Basu
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
ISBN: 9780199467211
Published In: August 2016
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: India ? Disclaimer:
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This omnibus brings together three significant works on Gender equality which comprehensively analyse key issues including women's rights, social justice, and empowerment. Together, the Books span Legal change in India over two centuries when women's rights were negotiated, rewritten and coded. In doing so they provide a comprehensive and significant understanding of why progressive laws, once passed, continue to be implemented in such a limited manner. They highlight the fact that legislations in the past fifty years have not brought gender equality in any real sense.

In An Introduction especially written for this collection, social activist and women's rights lawyer Flavia Agnes explores the complex Relationship between notions of patriarchy, sexuality, property, and the manner in which they are normalized and essentialized through State intervention and judicial discourse.

Introduction by Flavia Agnes

Law and Gender Inequality

The Politics of Womenâs Rights in India

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Table of Cases

1. IntroductionâA Need for Rescrutiny

Part One: PRE-COLONIAL LEGAL STRUCTURES

2. Plurality of Hindu Law and Womenâs Rights Under It

3. Evolution of Islamic Law and Womenâs Spaces within It

4. Colonial Rule and Subversion of Rights

5. Politicization of Womenâs Rights

Part Two: POST-INDEPENDENCE DEVELOPMENTS