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Women and Family Law Reform in India

Author : Archana Parashar
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Women and Family Law Reform in India written by Archana Parashar and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1992-08-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Constitution of India guarantees equality as a fundamental right. This, however, remains only at the level of theory as the various religious personal laws in force in the country and followed by different communities deny equality to women in personal matters. This inequitous contradiction is the subject of this pioneering study. Dr. Parashar argues that the concept of religious personal law was created by colonial administrators and has been maintained by independent India since, in a religiously plural society, it helps the State’s end of governance. The author traces the legislative conduct of the State and demonstrates that it has adopted discrepant policies with respect to the different religious personal laws. While Hindu personal law has been extensively reformed, the other personal laws have been left largely untouched. As a result, Hindu women have gained new rights, though not complete equality, while women of the minority communities continue to suffer inequalities. The author critically examines the arguments used by the State to reform, or refrain from reforming, religious personal laws. This analysis establishes conclusively that the State has acted in an inconsistent manner, and that its decisions are not governed by considerations of equality and gender justice but primarily by political factors. The author concludes that the only way to sever the connection between religious and civil rights is to adopt a secular and uniform civil code which should be non-optional. Dr. Parashar also highlights the inadequacies of the various feminist analyses of the nature of law and suggests that any discussion of the nature of the State must incorporate the significance of religion as a political factor. This major study will interest lawyers, legal activists, feminists and all those fighting to end gender discrimination.

Modern Indian Family Law

Author : Werner Menski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136839925
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Modern Indian Family Law written by Werner Menski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents an overview of the major issues and topics in current developments in Indian family law. Indian law has produced a number of very important innovations in the past two decades, which are also highly instructive for law reform debates in western and other jurisdictions. Topics discussed are: marriage, divorce, polygamy, maintenance, property and the Uniform Civil Code.

Family Law Reform and the Position of Women in Post-independence India

Author : Archana Parashar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Family Law Reform and the Position of Women in Post-independence India written by Archana Parashar and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Redefining Family Law in India

Author : Archana Parashar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000083918
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redefining Family Law in India written by Archana Parashar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. It will interest those in law judges, legislators, law reformers as well as those in women and family studies, policy makers and policy analysts, apart from the general reader.

Personal Law Reforms and Gender Empowerment

Author : Nandini Chavan
Publisher : Hope India Publications
ISBN 13 : 817871079X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (787 download)

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Book Synopsis Personal Law Reforms and Gender Empowerment by : Nandini Chavan

Download or read book Personal Law Reforms and Gender Empowerment written by Nandini Chavan and published by Hope India Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic objective of this book is to explore the possibilities of reform in Muslim Personal Law and Hindu Personal Law from women rights perspective. It is a long, complex discourse. But the key factor in the whole discourse is gender . The issue of Uniform Civil Code (UCC ) is being hugely politicized and communalized by communal forces in the name of religion. But the endeavour here is to see the whole issue objectively through the lens of gender equality.

Family, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia

Author : Kenneth M. Cuno
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815651481
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Family, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia written by Kenneth M. Cuno and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection examine issues of gender, family, and law in the Middle East and South Asia. In particular, the authors address the impact of colonialism on law, family, and gender relations; the role of religious politics in writing family law and the implications for gender relations; and the tension between international standards emerging from UN conferences and conventions and various nationalist projects. Employing the frame of globalization, the authors highlight how local and global forces interact and influence the experience and actions of people who engage with the law. By virtue of a "south-south" comparison of two quite similar and culturally linked regions, contributors avoid positing "the West" as a modern telos. Drawing upon the fields of anthropology, history, sociology, and law, this volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of the complicated history of jurisprudence with regard to family and gender.

Modern Indian Family Law

Author : Werner Menski
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780700713165
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Modern Indian Family Law written by Werner Menski and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents an overview of the major issues and topics in current developments in Indian family law. Indian law has produced a number of very important innovations in the past two decades, which are also highly instructive for law reform debates in western and other jurisdictions. Topics discussed are: marriage, divorce, polygamy, maintenance, property and the Uniform Civil Code.

She Comes to Take Her Rights

Author : Srimati Basu
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791495922
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book She Comes to Take Her Rights written by Srimati Basu and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1999-02-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the contemporary workings of property law in India through the lives and thoughts of middle-class and poor women, this is a study of the ways in which cultural practices, and particularly notions of gender ideology, guide the workings of law. It urges a close reading of decisions by women that appear to be contrary to material interests and that reinforce patriarchal ideologies. Hailed as a radical moment for gender equality, the Hindu Succession Act was passed in India in 1956 theoretically giving Hindu women the right to equal inheritance of their parents' self-acquired property. However, in the years since the act's existence, its provisions have scarcely been utilized. Using interview data drawn from middle-class and poor neighborhoods in Delhi, this book explores the complexity of women's decisions with regard to family property in this context. The book shows that it is not passivity, ignorance of the law, naiveté about wealth, or unthinking adherence to gender prescriptions that guides women's decisions, but rather an intricate negotiation of kinship and an optimization of socioeconomic and emotional needs. An examination of recent legal cases also reveals that the formal legal realm can be hospitable to women's rights-based claims, but judgments are still coded in terms of customary provisions despite legal criteria to the contrary.

The Position of Indian Women in the Light of Legal Reform

Author : Angeles J. Almenas-Lipowsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Position of Indian Women in the Light of Legal Reform written by Angeles J. Almenas-Lipowsky and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Socio-legal Status of Women in India

Author : Rama Mehta
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socio-legal Status of Women in India written by Rama Mehta and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in Muslim Family Law

Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815629085
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Women in Muslim Family Law written by John L. Esposito and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of John L. Esposito's landmark book expands and updates coverage of family law reforms (in marriage, divorce, and inheritance) throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and South and Southeast Asia, and analyzes the diverse interpretation of Muslim family law, identifying shifts, key problems, and challenges in the twenty-first century.

Law and Gender Inequality

Author : Flavia
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Gender Inequality written by Flavia and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an invaluable analysis of the current trends of the debate on Uniform Civil Code located within a highly charged and communally vitiated political scenario. It goes on to expose the communal undertones of some recent well published judicial pronouncements.

Women, Business and the Law 2020

Author : World Bank Group
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 146481533X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Women, Business and the Law 2020 written by World Bank Group and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law examines laws and regulations affecting women’s prospects as entrepreneurs and employees across 190 economies. Its goal is to inform policy discussions on how to remove legal restrictions on women and promote research on how to improve women’s economic inclusion.

State, Gender and the Rhetoric of Law Reform

Author : Flavia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book State, Gender and the Rhetoric of Law Reform written by Flavia and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women, Business and the Law 2021

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464816530
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Women, Business and the Law 2021 written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Business and the Law 2021 is the seventh in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they move through their lives and careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. This year’s report updates all indicators as of October 1, 2020 and builds evidence of the links between legal gender equality and women’s economic inclusion. By examining the economic decisions women make throughout their working lives, as well as the pace of reform over the past 50 years, Women, Business and the Law 2021 makes an important contribution to research and policy discussions about the state of women’s economic empowerment. Prepared during a global pandemic that threatens progress toward gender equality, this edition also includes important findings on government responses to COVID-19 and pilot research related to childcare and women’s access to justice.

Law, Justice, and Gender

Author : Flavia Agnes
Publisher : OUP India
ISBN 13 : 9780198067900
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Law, Justice, and Gender written by Flavia Agnes and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining facts and analysis, the volume cites laws and cases relating to women in the context of matrimonial rights and obligations, personal laws, marriage and divorce, and constitutional claims, in contemporary India in a historical perspective.

Feminist Advocacy, Family Law and Violence against Women

Author : Mahnaz Akhami
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429796331
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Advocacy, Family Law and Violence against Women written by Mahnaz Akhami and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, discriminatory legislation prevents women from accessing their human rights. It can affect almost every aspect of a woman's life, including the right to choose a partner, inherit property, hold a job, and obtain child custody. Often referred to as family law, these laws have contributed to discrimination and to the justification of gender-based violence globally. This book demonstrates how women across the world are contributing to legal reform, helping to shape non-discriminatory policies and to counter current legal and social justifications for gender-based violence. The book takes case studies from Brazil, India, Iran, Lebanon, Nigeria, Palestine, Senegal, and Turkey, using them to demosntrate in each case the varied history of family law and the wide variety of issues impacting women’s equality in legislation. Interviews with prominent women's rights activists in three additional countries are also included, giving personal accounts of the successes and failures of past reform efforts. Overall, the book provides a complex global picture of current trends and strategies in the fight for a more egalitarian society. These findings come at a critical moment for change. Across the globe, family law issues are contentious. We are simultaneously witnessing an increased demand for women’s equality and the resurgence of fundamentalist forces that impede reform, invoking rules rooted in tradition, culture, and interpretations of religious texts. The outcome of these disputes has enormous ramifications for women’s roles in the family and society. This book tackles these complexities head on, and will interest activists, practitioners, students, and scholars working on women's rights and gender-based violence.