Public secrets of law
Subtitle: rape trials in India
By: Pratiksha Baxi
Series: Oxford scholarship online
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199082698
Subjects: Rape
Description: 'Public Secrets of Law' describes the everyday socio-legal processes that underlie the making of rape trials in Indian courts. Based on an ethnographic project in the rural District and Sessions Court in Ahmedabad (Gujarat), as well as critical readings of the juridical archive, it demonstrates how rape trials furnish scripts of the social via the judicialised bodies of violated women.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.