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Law and gender inequality : the politics of women's rights in India / Flavia Agnes.
- Title
- Law and gender inequality : the politics of women's rights in India / Flavia Agnes.
- Author
- Flavia.
- Publication
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1999.
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- Description
- xvii, 250 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Law and Gender Inequality maps the issue of gender and law reform upon a broad canvas of history and politics, and explores strategies which could safeguard women's rights within India's sphere of complex social and political boundaries. Written in a lucid style, this book provides an invaluable analysis of the current trends of the debate on the Uniform Civil Code located within a highly charged and communally vitiated political scenario and goes on to expose the communal undertones of some recent well published judicial pronouncements. Activist, scholar and legal practitioner, Flavia Agnes, brings the focus of this debate to the central issue - that of arresting the trend of destitution and consequential impoverishment of women from all Indian religious communities."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Law in India series
- Uniform Title
- Law in India series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- comment.
- text.
- commentaire.
- texte.
- comentario.
- texto.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-242) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- A Need for Rescrutiny -- pt. 1. Pre-Colonial and Colonial Legal Structures. 2. Plurality of Hindu Law and Women's Rights under it. 3. Evolution of Islamic Law and Women's Space within it.
- 4. Colonial Rule and Subversion of Rights. 5. Politicization of Women's Rights -- pt. 2. Post-Independence Developments. 6. Hindu Law Reforms -- Stilted Efforts at Gender Justice. 7. Erosion of Secular Principles.
- 8. Communal Undertones within Recent Judicial Decisions -- pt. 3. Developments in the Personal Laws of Non-Muslim Minorities. 9. Legal Significance of the Parsi Community. 10. Political Reformulation of Christian Personal Law.
- pt. 4. Current Debates. 11. Model Drafts and Legal Doctrines. 12. Strategies of Reform. 13. Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 0195645871
- LCCN
- ^^^99938560^
- OCLC
- 42308422
- SCSB-10302941
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library