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Legally Dispossessed: Gender, Identity and the Process of Law

Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay

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Description:This pathbreaking study of women’s experience of litigation under personal laws (those that cover marriage and inheritance) raises vital questions of identity and citizenship in India and throws new light on the uniform civil code debate. The author asks why it is so difficult to disentangle woman ‘as subject/citizen imbued with rights from that of being daughter, sister, wife, widow and the symbol of a community’? Why is it that both Hindu and Muslim women are usually unsuccessful in their claims for property despite appealing to different personal laws?By shifting the focus from the text of the law to an ethnography of litigation–the nature of disputes, the attitudes of lawyers, the experiences in court, the logic of judgements, and so on–the analysis brings into play the crucial factors that are obscured in abstract discussions of ‘rights’.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Legally Dispossessed: Gender, Identity and the Process of Law. To get started finding Legally Dispossessed: Gender, Identity and the Process of Law, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This pathbreaking study of women’s experience of litigation under personal laws (those that cover marriage and inheritance) raises vital questions of identity and citizenship in India and throws new light on the uniform civil code debate. The author asks why it is so difficult to disentangle woman ‘as subject/citizen imbued with rights from that of being daughter, sister, wife, widow and the symbol of a community’? Why is it that both Hindu and Muslim women are usually unsuccessful in their claims for property despite appealing to different personal laws?By shifting the focus from the text of the law to an ethnography of litigation–the nature of disputes, the attitudes of lawyers, the experiences in court, the logic of judgements, and so on–the analysis brings into play the crucial factors that are obscured in abstract discussions of ‘rights’.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Legally Dispossessed: Gender, Identity and the Process of Law. To get started finding Legally Dispossessed: Gender, Identity and the Process of Law, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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