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Capable Women, Incapable States - Negotiating Violence and Rights in India (Hardcover)
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Capable Women, Incapable States - Negotiating Violence and Rights in India (Hardcover)
Series: Modern South Asia
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In recent decades, the issue of gender-based violence has become
heavily politicized in India. Yet, Indian law enforcement personnel
continue to be biased against women and overburdened. In Capable
Women, Incapable States, Poulami Roychowdhury asks how women claim
rights within these conditions. Through long term ethnography, she
provides an in-depth lens on rights negotiations in the world's
largest democracy, detailing their social and political effects.
Roychowdhury finds that women interact with the law not by
following legal procedure or abiding by the rules, but by deploying
collective threats and doing the work of the state themselves. And
they behave this way because law enforcement personnel do not
protect women from harm but do allow women to take the law into
their own hands.These negotiations do not enhance legal
enforcement. Instead, they create a space where capable women can
extract concessions outside the law, all while shouldering a new
burden of labor and risk. A unique theory of gender inequality and
governance, Capable Women, Incapable States forces us to rethink
the effects of rights activism across large parts of the world
where political mobilization confronts negligent criminal justice
systems.
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