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Author_Srimati Basu
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dispute resolution
domestic violence
empowerment
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ethnography
family courts
female empowerment
feminism
feminist
feminist theory
gender
gender and justice series
gender and women studies
gender discrimination
gender studies
global feminism
india
law
legal concerns
legal environment
legal sites
legal system
marital trouble
marriage
marriage and family
marriage in india
marriage law
oppression
property
rape
socioeconomic norms
sociology
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9780520282452
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 2015
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Srimati Basu is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety, the editor of Dowry and Inheritance (Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism series), and the coeditor of Conjugality Unbound: Sexual Economy and the Marital Form in India.
