Law and gender inequality
Subtitle: the politics of women's rights in India
By: Flavia Agnes.
Series: Law in India series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- India; Sex and law -- India; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (Hindu law)
Description: "Law and Gender Inequality maps the issue of gender and law reform upon a broad canvas of history and politics, and explores strategies which could safeguard women's rights within India's sphere of complex social and political boundaries. Written in a lucid style, this book provides an invaluable analysis of the current trends of the debate on the Uniform Civil Code located within a highly charged and communally vitiated political scenario and goes on to expose the communal undertones of some recent well published judicial pronouncements. Activist, scholar and legal practitioner, Flavia Agnes, brings the focus of this debate to the central issue - that of arresting the trend of destitution and consequential impoverishment of women from all Indian religious communities."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-242) and index.