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Indian Feminisms: Law Patriarchies and Feminism in India [Hardcover]

Geetanjali Gangoli (Author)

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Publication Date: February 2007 | ISBN-10: 0754646041 | ISBN-13: 978-0754646044

Contributing to recent debates on feminism, and Indian feminism in particular, this book assesses how feminists in India have impacted legal and social debates on women's rights, violence against women and sexuality from the 1970s. The author examines and analyses feminist campaigns on issues of violence and women's rights and debates on ways in which feminist legal debates may be limiting for women and based on exclusionary concepts such as citizenship. Campaigns ranging from domestic violence, rape, pornography and son preference are addressed and set within a wider analysis of the position of women within the Indian state and sexuality generally. The strengths and limitations of law reform for women are addressed as well as whether legal feminisms relating to law and women's legal rights are effective in the Indian context. The author examines whether legal campaigns have led to or can lead to positive changes in women's lives or whether they further legitimize oppressive state patriarchies. The recasting of caste and community identities are also assessed, as well as the rise of Hindu fundamentalism and the ways in which feminists in India have combated and confronted these challenges. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in the areas of feminism, law, women's movements and social movements in India and South Asia more generally.

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About the Author

Geetanjali Gangoli is Research Fellow in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She is part of the Violence Against Women Research Group.

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Hardcover: 149 pages
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co (February 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0754646041
ISBN-13: 978-0754646044
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #727,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Feminist movements in India have posed challenges to established patriarchal institutions such as the family, and to dominant social values and structures, most significantly in the arena of legal interventions in the areas of violence against women. Read the first page

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custodial rape, personal lass, dowry related violence, bar dancers, dowry demands, experiencing domestic violence, feminist organisations, flesh trade, maintenance amount, communal riots

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Supreme Court, Sessions Court, Women's Centre, Maya Tyagi, Bhanwari Devi, Shah Bano, Ravi Shankar, Stree Jagruti Samiti, Suman Rani, Andhra Pradesh, Dowry Prohibition Act, Hindu Marriage Act, Shah Rano, Indecent Representation of Women, Sexual Assault Bill, Shahnaz Shaikh, Indira Gandhi, Justice Koshal, Talwar Oldenburg, Uttar Pradesh

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