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Gender, Violence and Governmentality: Legal and Policy Initiatives in India

Gender, Violence and Governmentality: Legal and Policy Initiatives in India

Sahu, Skylab

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General Gender StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0815351097
ISBN13: 9780815351092
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Dec 21 2020
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This book critically examines gender-based violence in India and interrogates the legal and policy discourse surrounding it. It discusses various forms of violence faced by women such as sex selective abortion, trafficking, rape, domestic violence, as well as the violence faced by female sex workers and transgenders in India. It draws on in-depth interviews and case studies to highlight the socio-economic conditions of the survivors who find themselves forced to contend with legal and policy framework that is inadequate to deal with these issues. The author analyses the major laws against violence and the policies introduced to ameliorate the condition of survivors in order to understand the potential and challenges of these initiatives from a postmodern and feminist perspective. The book also addresses the survivors' realisation of agency and resistance which is seen to be expressed both sporadically and on day-to-day basis.

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