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She Comes To Take Her Rights

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Author : Srimati Basu
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01

She Comes To Take Her Rights written by Srimati Basu and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Social Science categories.

Using the contemporary workings of property law in India through the lives and thoughts of middle-class and poor women, this is a study of the ways in which cultural practices, and particularly notions of gender ideology, guide the workings of law. It urges a close reading of decisions by women that appear to be contrary to material interests and that reinforce patriarchal ideologies. Hailed as a radical moment for gender equality, the Hindu Succession Act was passed in India in 1956 theoretically giving Hindu women the right to equal inheritance of their parents' self-acquired property. However, in the years since the act's existence, its provisions have scarcely been utilized. Using interview data drawn from middle-class and poor neighborhoods in Delhi, this book explores the complexity of women's decisions with regard to family property in this context. The book shows that it is not passivity, ignorance of the law, naiveté about wealth, or unthinking adherence to gender prescriptions that guides women's decisions, but rather an intricate negotiation of kinship and an optimization of socioeconomic and emotional needs. An examination of recent legal cases also reveals that the formal legal realm can be hospitable to women's rights-based claims, but judgments are still coded in terms of customary provisions despite legal criteria to the contrary.

She Comes To Take Her Rights

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Author : Srimati Basu
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1999-02-25

She Comes To Take Her Rights written by Srimati Basu and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-25 with Social Science categories.

The Trouble With Marriage

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Author : Srimati Basu
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-01-03

The Trouble With Marriage written by Srimati Basu and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-03 with Social Science categories.

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.

Dowry And Inheritance

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Author : Srimati Basu
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date : 2005-10

Dowry And Inheritance written by Srimati Basu and has been published by Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10 with Law categories.

The practice of dowry in modern India epitomizes the gulf between the ideal and the real. Stridhan or dakshina were gifts traditionally given at marriage to ensure the well-being of the bride in her new home. In its modern form, however, the demand for dowry has led to brides being tortured and even killed. The socialization of young girls into deference to parents-in-law and husband has spawned a 'culture of silence' that leaves them open to harassment. Despite preventive litigation, dowry remains a widespread 'social evil' - a marker of social status - more common, disturbingly, among the educated urban middle classes than among urban poor or rural population. While caste restrictions on the choice of marriage partners seem to have eased, socio-economic factors have gained in significance. Dowry is also making inroads into communities that did not follow the practice traditionally. Understanding the tenacity of dowry is a step towards ending an exploitative practice.

Commentaries On Equity Jurisprudence As Administered In England And America

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Author : Joseph Story
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870

Commentaries On Equity Jurisprudence As Administered In England And America written by Joseph Story and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with categories.

Weekly Notes Of Cases Argued And Determined In The Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania The County Courts Of Philadelphia And The United States District And Circuit Courts For The Eastern District Of Pennsylvania

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890

Weekly Notes Of Cases Argued And Determined In The Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania The County Courts Of Philadelphia And The United States District And Circuit Courts For The Eastern District Of Pennsylvania written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Law reports, digests, etc categories.