Negotiating Spaces

Legal Domains, Gender Concerns, and Community Constructs
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-807663-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Laws protecting women are based on the belief that gender sensitive statutory laws can protect women better than the laws based on community practices of patriarchal traditions. However, in India these two sets of laws constantly overlap. This volume analyses the impact of such laws on women's rights and studies the interventionist role of courts. The essays explore the contradictions that Indian women face when it comes to choosing between the formal state laws and community based laws. They
also examine how women negotiate spaces within their public and private lives. The book highlights the compromises women make while facing challenges from the State, community, and family. Focusing on the legal domain, the volume provides insights into the laws related to domestic violence, property
rights, matrimonial rights, and rape. It also critically analyses the laws related to sexual morality by focusing on the recent case of bar dancers.

This book will be of interest to lawyers, social workers, human and women's rights activists, and policymakers. It will also be useful for researchers and teachers of law, politics, sociology, and gender studies.

Zielgruppe

This book will be of interest to lawyers, social workers, human rights and women's rights activists. It will also be useful for researchers and teachers of law, politics, sociology, and gender studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Agnes, Flavia

Venkatesh Ghosh, Shoba

Majlis

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Asien (inkl. Türkei und Naher Osten)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
PART I: Indian Women's Negotiations over Inheritance
1: Beyond Property Refusal: Indian Women's Discourses of Inheritance by Srimati Basu
2: Negotiating Rights and Relationships: Muslim Women and Inheritance by Nasreen Fazalbhoy
PART II: Property Negotiations during Divorce Proceedings
3: Bargaining in the Shadow of Law: Negotiating Property Rights in Divorce Proceedings by Flavia Agnes
4: Women's Engagement with Matrimonial Property Law in Goa by Albertina Almeida
PART III: Regulating Marriages: Community and State Interventions
5: Crossing Communities: Religious Conversion, Rights in Marriage and Personal Law by Samita Sen
PART IV: Women's Negotiations within Communities and the State
6: Local and Customary Forums: Adapting and Innovating Rules of Formal Law by Vasudha Nagaraj
7: Towards Understanding Muslim Social Reform: Jamait-ul-Mommat and its Fatwas for Women by A. Suneetha
8: Abortion: Feminist Dilemmas by Nivedita Menon
PART V: Violence against Women, Criminal Procedures, and Negotiation of Rights
9: Listening to Women's Voices: Domestic Violence and Women's Negotiations with Law and Public Institutions by Anjali Dave
10: Justice is a Secret: 'Compromise' in Rape Trials by Pratiksha Baxi
PART VI: Negotiating 'Vice' and 'Immorality' through State and Civil Society Structures
11: Women in Sex Work: Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad (VAMP) by Meena Seshu
12: Citizenship at the Margins: Balancing Visibility and Invisibility: The Case of the Bar Dancer by Flavia Agnes
13: Waving the 'Colour Purple' in the Rainbow Parade by Chayanika Shah
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Flavia Agnes is an Advocate and Founder-director of Majlis.
Shoba Venkatesh Ghosh is Professor, Department of English University of Mumbai.
Majlis is Centre for Women's Rights Discourse and Legal Initiatives.