The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence

The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India (Gender and Justice Book 1)

The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than solution. In this ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, Srimati Basu depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolution, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, has created new subjectivities, but, paradoxically, has also reinforced oppressive socioeconomic norms that leave women no better off, individually or collectively.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-01-03
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-01-03
Format	Kindle eBook

The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India (Gender and Justice Book 1)