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Redefining Family Law in India
This volume is a collection of articles by scholars across disciplines to create a discourse of family law independent of Religious Personal Law, whilst striving for fairness and justice to all. It demonstrates the artificiality of the public-private divide and seeks the systematic development of id...
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| Médium: | Printed Book |
| Jazyk: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Shrnutí: | This volume is a collection of articles by scholars across disciplines to create a discourse of family law independent of Religious Personal Law, whilst striving for fairness and justice to all. It demonstrates the artificiality of the public-private divide and seeks the systematic development of ideas for a fair and just family law in contemporary India. The book does not merely document the pathologies of power within the family but also makes proposals for remedying these inequities. It is not confined to considering what changes need to be inducted into existing family law to make it more just, but also strategises on the means and methods of effecting the change. It lifts the familial veil and scrutinises the status, rights and disabilities of some of the subordinated members of the family. The volume is an invitation to redefine family law with the twin tools of reflection and responsibility. |
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| Popis jednotky: | Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Inheriting Modernity: Religious Intolerance in Christianity, Islam and Hinduism Chapter 2. Wives and Whores: the Regulation of the Economies in Sexual Labour Chapter 3. Saving Custom or Promoting Incest? Post-Independence Marriage Law and Dravidian Marriage practices Chapter 4. A Psychosocial Critique of the Law of Adoption in India Chapter 5. Paternalistic law, autonomous child and the responsible judges Chapter 6. Dysphoric bodies of law Chapter 7. Sexuality, freedom and the law Chapter 8. Divorce at the wife's initiative in Muslim Personal Law: What are the Options and What are their Implications for Women's Welfare? Chapter 9. Hindu Conjugality: Transition from Sacrament to Contractual Obligations Flavia Agnes Chapter 10. Family, Work and Matrimonial Property: Implications for Women and Children Chapter 11. Succession Laws and Gender Justice Chapter 12. 'Bargaining', Gender Equality and Legal Change: the Case of India's Inheritance Laws |
| Fyzický popis: | 374 p. |
| ISBN: | 9781138639867 |