This book examines important issues pertaining to women's rights. It provides a broad perspective on how women negotiate myriad challenges that they face from family, community, and State.
This book examines important issues pertaining to women's rights. It provides a broad perspective on how women negotiate myriad challenges that they face from family, community, and State.
Flavia Agnes is an Advocate and Founder-director of Majlis. Shoba Venkatesh Ghosh is Professor, Department of English University of Mumbai. Majlis is Centre for Women's Rights Discourse and Legal Initiatives.
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* Introduction * PART I: Indian Women's Negotiations over Inheritance * 1: Beyond Property Refusal: Indian Women's Discourses of Inheritance by Srimati Basu * 2: Negotiating Rights and Relationships: Muslim Women and Inheritance by Nasreen Fazalbhoy * PART II: Property Negotiations during Divorce Proceedings * 3: Bargaining in the Shadow of Law: Negotiating Property Rights in Divorce Proceedings by Flavia Agnes * 4: Women's Engagement with Matrimonial Property Law in Goa by Albertina Almeida * PART III: Regulating Marriages: Community and State Interventions * 5: Crossing Communities: Religious Conversion, Rights in Marriage and Personal Law by Samita Sen * PART IV: Women's Negotiations within Communities and the State * 6: Local and Customary Forums: Adapting and Innovating Rules of Formal Law by Vasudha Nagaraj * 7: Towards Understanding Muslim Social Reform: Jamait-ul-Mommat and its Fatwas for Women by A. Suneetha * 8: Abortion: Feminist Dilemmas by Nivedita Menon * PART V: Violence against Women, Criminal Procedures, and Negotiation of Rights * 9: Listening to Women's Voices: Domestic Violence and Women's Negotiations with Law and Public Institutions by Anjali Dave * 10: Justice is a Secret: 'Compromise' in Rape Trials by Pratiksha Baxi * PART VI: Negotiating 'Vice' and 'Immorality' through State and Civil Society Structures * 11: Women in Sex Work: Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad (VAMP) by Meena Seshu * 12: Citizenship at the Margins: Balancing Visibility and Invisibility: The Case of the Bar Dancer by Flavia Agnes * 13: Waving the 'Colour Purple' in the Rainbow Parade by Chayanika Shah * Index
* Introduction * PART I: Indian Women's Negotiations over Inheritance * 1: Beyond Property Refusal: Indian Women's Discourses of Inheritance by Srimati Basu * 2: Negotiating Rights and Relationships: Muslim Women and Inheritance by Nasreen Fazalbhoy * PART II: Property Negotiations during Divorce Proceedings * 3: Bargaining in the Shadow of Law: Negotiating Property Rights in Divorce Proceedings by Flavia Agnes * 4: Women's Engagement with Matrimonial Property Law in Goa by Albertina Almeida * PART III: Regulating Marriages: Community and State Interventions * 5: Crossing Communities: Religious Conversion, Rights in Marriage and Personal Law by Samita Sen * PART IV: Women's Negotiations within Communities and the State * 6: Local and Customary Forums: Adapting and Innovating Rules of Formal Law by Vasudha Nagaraj * 7: Towards Understanding Muslim Social Reform: Jamait-ul-Mommat and its Fatwas for Women by A. Suneetha * 8: Abortion: Feminist Dilemmas by Nivedita Menon * PART V: Violence against Women, Criminal Procedures, and Negotiation of Rights * 9: Listening to Women's Voices: Domestic Violence and Women's Negotiations with Law and Public Institutions by Anjali Dave * 10: Justice is a Secret: 'Compromise' in Rape Trials by Pratiksha Baxi * PART VI: Negotiating 'Vice' and 'Immorality' through State and Civil Society Structures * 11: Women in Sex Work: Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad (VAMP) by Meena Seshu * 12: Citizenship at the Margins: Balancing Visibility and Invisibility: The Case of the Bar Dancer by Flavia Agnes * 13: Waving the 'Colour Purple' in the Rainbow Parade by Chayanika Shah * Index
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