{"product_id":"women-law-in-india","title":"Women \u0026 Law in India","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Flavia Agnes\u003cbr\u003eSudhir Chandra\/Monmayee Basu\u003cbr\u003eCompilor: Flavia Agnes\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2004\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 766\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195667670\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis omnibus brings together three significant works on gender equality which comprehensively analyze 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 codes. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaw and Gender Inequality maps the issue of gender and law reforms upon a canvas of history and politics, and explores strategies which could safeguard women’s rights within India’s sphere of complex social and political boundaries. Flavia Agnes provides an invaluable analysis of the current debate on the Uniform Civil Code. She pinpoints the central issue in this context, that of arresting the trend of destitution and consequential impoverishment of Indian women from all religious communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Enslaved Daughters, Sudhir Chandra studies the case of Rukhmabai whose legal crusade for freedom from conjugal claims of the husband she disliked sparked off a social and political debate on the position of women in society. Te author reveals the inner working of the legal system during the colonial period and studies the conflicting and overlapping ideologies underpinning it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Hindu women and Marriage Law, Monmayee Basu studies the development and changes in Hindu marriage laws over the last 150 years. She analyses highly contentious issues like child marriage, dowry, sati, widow remarriage, and divorce laws to explain constructions of women’s position in society. She also reviews remedial legislative measures to conclude tat although the position of married women under Hindu law has undergone much transformation, in actual practice, little social benefit has resulted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis omnibus will interest social workers, activists, and NGOs working in the area of  women’s empowerment and justice. It will also be useful to researchers and students of law and gender studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLAW AND GENDER INEQUALITY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlavia Agnes work interweaves numerous perspectives into a meaningful whole, crisp and racy, analysis backed by facts and cases, a valuable contribution.\u003cbr\u003e-Economic and Political Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgnes provides facts to dispel long-standing myths, (she) presents a cogent argument that is engaging, accessible, and a solid read.\u003cbr\u003e-Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eENSLAVED DAUGHTERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt goes to the credit of Sudhir Chandra that he has not just gifted us an extremely riveting and compelling monograph, but that he has made clear his feminist biases. For once, the discourse and interlocutor can be easily demarcated. And this requires some skill and sensitivity.\u003cbr\u003e-Seminar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne glance at  social attitudes and we could still be in Rukhmabai's time. Sudhir Chandra has written a well-researched, wonderfully detailed, empathetic book on the trials and tribulations of Rukhmabai.\u003cbr\u003e-India today\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHINDU WOMEN AND MARRIAGE LAW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonmayee Basu has written a book on a subject to which we must return again and again interesting and varied package of insights that hang together in a readable way.\u003cbr\u003e-Indian Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART : I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eFlavia Agnes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLAW AND GENDER INEQUALITY\u003cbr\u003eThe Politics of Women's Rights in India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Cases\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eA Need for Resrutiny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: PRE-COLONIAL AND COLONIAL LEGAL STRUCTURES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlurality of Hindu Law and Women's Rights Under it\u003cbr\u003eEvolution of Islamic Law and Women's Spaces Within It\u003cbr\u003eColonial Rule and Subversion of Rights\u003cbr\u003ePoliticization of Women's Rights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO: POST-INDEPENDECE DEVELOPMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHindu Law Reforms-Stilted Efforts At Gender Justice\u003cbr\u003eErosion of Secular Principles\u003cbr\u003eCommunal Undertones Within Recent Judicial Decisions\u003cbr\u003eLegal Significance of the Parsi Community\u003cbr\u003ePolitical Reformulation of Christian Personal Law\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART FOUR: CURRENT DEBATES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModel Drafts and Legal Doctrines\u003cbr\u003eStrategies of Reform\u003cbr\u003eConclusions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX I\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX II\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART: II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePROLOGUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRukhmabai and Her Case\u003cbr\u003eA Disputed Charter\u003cbr\u003eThe Law on Trial\u003cbr\u003eA Challenge to Civilized Society\u003cbr\u003eThe Brutal Embrace: Let it Stand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendices-A To E\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Flavia Agnes \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153585140080,"sku":"13420","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/13420.jpg?v=1793911342","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/women-law-in-india","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}