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An ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, in which, the author depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Law, Marriage, and Feminist Reform 2. Construction Zones: Marriage Law in Formation 3. Beyond Equivalence: On Reading and Speaking Law 4. Justice without Lawyers? Living the Family Court Experiment 5. In Sanity and in Wealth: Diagnosing Conjugality and Kinship 6. Sexual Property: Rape and Marriage Conjoined 7. Strategizing Spaces: Negotiating the Violence out of Domestic Violence Claims 8. The Trouble Is Marriage: Conclusions and Worries Notes References Index

The Trouble with Marriage

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 3 January 2015
      ISBN-13 9780520282452
      978-0520282452
      ISBN-10 0520282450

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, in which, the author depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Law, Marriage, and Feminist Reform 2. Construction Zones: Marriage Law in Formation 3. Beyond Equivalence: On Reading and Speaking Law 4. Justice without Lawyers? Living the Family Court Experiment 5. In Sanity and in Wealth: Diagnosing Conjugality and Kinship 6. Sexual Property: Rape and Marriage Conjoined 7. Strategizing Spaces: Negotiating the Violence out of Domestic Violence Claims 8. The Trouble Is Marriage: Conclusions and Worries Notes References Index

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