Negotiating spaces
Subtitle: legal domains, gender concerns, and community constructs
By: edited by Flavia Agnes, Shoba Venkatesh Ghosh in association with Majlis Legal Centre
Contributors: Majlis (Organization : Mumbai, India). Legal Centre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780198076636
Subjects: Women; Congresses; Legal status, laws; Social conditions
Notes: Based on a conference organized by Majlis in February, 2010 -- Page xii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Citizenship at the margins : balancing visibility and invisibility : the case of the bar dancer of Mumbai  -- Flavia Agnes; title: Women in sex work : Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad  -- Meena Saraswathi Seshu; title: Waving the 'colour purple' in the rainbow parade  -- Chayanika Shah; title: Crossing communities : religious conversion, rights in marriage, and personal law  -- Samita Sen; title: Making our own bed, and then lying in it : decisive women, adamant communities, complicit state  -- Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives (AALI); title: Towards understanding Muslim social reform : Jamait-ul-Mominath and its fatwas for women  -- A. Suneetha; title: Abortion : feminist dilemmas  -- Nivedita Menon; title: Local and customary fora : adapting and innovating rules of formal law  -- Vasudha Nagaraj; title: Listening to women's voices : domestic violence and women's negotiations with law and public institutions  -- Anjali Dave; title: Justice is a secret : 'compromise' in rape trials  -- Pratiksha Baxi; title: Beyond property refusal : Indian women's discourses of inheritance  -- Srimati Basu; title: Negotiating rights and relationships : Muslim women and inheritance  -- Nasreen Fazalbhoy; title: Bargaining under the shadow of law : negotiating property rights in matrimonial disputes  -- Flavia Agnes; title: Walking the tightrope : ensuring matrimonial property rights of women of Goa -- Albertina Almeida.