The Trouble with Marriage
Download or Read eBook The Trouble with Marriage PDF written by Srimati Basu and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2015-01-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Srimati Basu |
| Publisher | : University of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2015-01-03 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780520282452 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0520282450 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Trouble with Marriage by : Srimati Basu
Book excerpt: 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.
