Skylab Sahu

Gender, Violence and Governmentality (eBook, ePUB)

Legal and Policy Initiatives in India

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book critically examines gender-based violence in India and interrogates the legal and policy discourse surrounding it. It discusses various forms of violence faced by women such as sex selective abortion, trafficking, rape, domestic violence, as well as the violence faced by female sex workers and transgenders in India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000297799
• Artikelnr.: 60643985

Autorenporträt

Skylab Sahu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Miranda House, University of Delhi, India. She specializes in gender studies, political theory, and Indian government and politics. Her research articles have been published in several national and international peer reviewed journals such as Studies in Indian Politics, Sociological Bulletin, Journal of Social and Economic Development, Journal of Health Management, Indian Journal of Political Science, Indian Journal of Social Work, among others. She is the author of Gender, Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS: Exploring Politics of Women's Health in India (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Sex Selective Abortion: A Feminist Interpretation of
Legal Dilemmas and Policy Initiatives in India 3. Impunity Assured and
Impunity Snatched: The State and the Discourse of Rape in India 4.
Normalisation of Domestic Violence in India 5. Sex Work in India: Invisible
Labour, Deviant Sexuality and Experience of Violence 6. Citizenship and
Transgenders: Analysing the Legal and Policy Discourse in India 7. State,
Law and Resistance