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100			_aKalpana Kannabirān
245			_aWomen and law _b: critical feminist perspectives _c/Kalpana Kannabirān
260			_aNew Delhi _b: SAGE Publications _c, 2014.
300			_axxi, 305 pages _c;20 cm.
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505			_a Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 -- Bringing Rights Home: Review of the Campaign for a Law on Domestic Violence; 2 -- Conjugality, Property, Morality and Maintenance; 3 -- Women, Forestspaces and the Law:Transgressing the Boundaries; 4 -- Women's Rights and Entitlements toLand in South Asia: Changing Forms of Engagements; 5 -- Outside the Realm of Protective Legislation:The Saga of Unpaid Work in India; 6 -- Gender Equality at Workplace:A Frozen Agenda; 7 -- Judicial Meanderings in Patriarchal Thickets:Litigating Sex Discrimination in India. 8 -- Women's Health and Law in India:Trends of Hope and Despair9 -- Prenatal Diagnosis:Where Do We Draw the Line?; 10 -- Religion, Feminist Politics and Muslim Women's Rights in India; 11 -- Women and State Violence:Where Is Justice?; About the Editor and Contributors; Index.
520			_aHow should we approach the problem of "women and law"? Should the focus be on women-centred laws and their efficacy? Or should the focus be, instead, on the ways in which the law imagines women and the ways in which women have engaged with the law-spilling beyond fields traditionally associated with the phrase "women and law"? And how does violence figure in all these? Women and Law, a compilation of 11 insightful essays, examines these questions
650			_aSocial Sciences
655			_aLaw
700			_aKalpana Kannabirān
942			_cBOOK