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Capable Women, Incapable States - Negotiating Violence and Rights in India (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,401
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Capable Women, Incapable States - Negotiating Violence and Rights in India (Hardcover): Poulami Roychowdhury

Capable Women, Incapable States - Negotiating Violence and Rights in India (Hardcover)

Poulami Roychowdhury

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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Modern South Asia
Release date: 2021
Authors: Poulami Roychowdhury (Assistant Professor of Sociology)
Dimensions: 241 x 161 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-088189-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics
Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Law & society
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General
LSN: 0-19-088189-5
Barcode: 9780190881894

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