Women and Law in India

Name: Women and Law in India
Brand: Oxford University Press India
SKU: 9780199467211
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Author: Flavia Agnes; Sudhir Chandra; Monmayee Basu
ISBN: 9780199467211

Edited by Flavia Agnes · Sudhir Chandra · Monmayee Basu

Oxford University Press India August 2016

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ISBN-13: 9780199467211
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Publication: August 2016
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: India ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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

6. Hindu Law ReformsâStilted Efforts at Gender Justice

7. Erosion of Secular Principles

8. Communal Undertones Within Recent Judicial Decisions

Part Three: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PERSONAL LAWS OF NON-MUSLIM MINORITIES

9. Legal Significance of the Parsi Community

10. Political Reformulation of Christian Personal Law

Part Four: CURRENT DEBATES

11. Model Drafts and Legal Doctrines

12. Strategies of Reform

13. Conclusion

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Bibliography

Tables

Index

Enslaved Daughters

Colonialism, Law and Womenâs Rights

Prologue

1. Rukhmabai and Her Case

2. A Disputed Charter

3. The Law on Trial

4. A Challenge to Civilized Society

5. The Brutal Embrace: Let it Stand

Epilogue

AppendicesâA to E

Index

Hindu Women and Marriage Law

From Sacrament to Contract

Preface

1. Condition of Hindu Women during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

2. The Changing Concept of Hindu Marriage

3. The Age of Marriage

4. Shackles for the Widow

5. Dowry

6. Severing the Sacred Tie

7. The Right to Property

Epilogue

Glossary

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

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