Download or read book She Comes to Take Her Rights written by Srimati Basu and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-02-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the contemporary workings of property law in India through the lives and thoughts of middle-class and poor women, this is a study of the ways in which cultural practices, and particularly notions of gender ideology, guide the workings of law. It urges a close reading of decisions by women that appear to be contrary to material interests and that reinforce patriarchal ideologies. Hailed as a radical moment for gender equality, the Hindu Succession Act was passed in India in 1956 theoretically giving Hindu women the right to equal inheritance of their parents self-acquired property. However, in the years since the acts existence, its provisions have scarcely been utilized. Using interview data drawn from middle-class and poor neighborhoods in Delhi, this book explores the complexity of womens decisions with regard to family property in this context. The book shows that it is not passivity, ignorance of the law, naiveté about wealth, or unthinking adherence to gender prescriptions that guides womens decisions, but rather an intricate negotiation of kinship and an optimization of socioeconomic and emotional needs. An examination of recent legal cases also reveals that the formal legal realm can be hospitable to womens rights-based claims, but judgments are still coded in terms of customary provisions despite legal criteria to the contrary.
Download or read book Security Socialisation and Affect in Indian Families written by Ira Raja and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociological research on Indian families has largely focused on questions of household form and structure, to the exclusion of not only the more nebulous dimensions of family life and relationships but also the discursive and imagined aspects of our familial worlds such as may be accessed through an analysis of film, literature and the electronic media. Moreover, when sociological inquiry has sought to go beyond the demographic and census aspects of the household, it has trained its eye on the heterosexual family centred on the conjugal couple, frequently at the expense of those relational patterns and diversities that fall outside the familiar circuits of desire within the family. The present volume brings together ten essays from a range of disciplines including law, literature, anthropology, sociology, and queer studies, to engage with hitherto neglected and emergent aspects of Indian family life. This book was published as a special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
Download or read book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman written by Barnes & Noble and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and the call for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecrafts work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrageWalpole called her a hyena in petticoatsyet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.
Download or read book It s Up to the Women written by Eleanor Roosevelt and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book." -- Jill Lepore, from the Introduction "Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in It's Up to the Women, her book of advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. Written at the height of the Great Depression, she called on women particularly to do their part -- cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking personal responsibility for keeping the economy going. Whether it's the recommendation that working women take time for themselves in order to fully enjoy time spent with their families, recipes for cheap but wholesome home-cooked meals, or America's obligation to women as they take a leading role in the new social order, many of the opinions expressed here are as fresh as if they were written today.
Download or read book The Lakeside Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Whispering Roots written by Cecil Day Lewis and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1896 with total page 1602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lakeside Monthly written by Francis Fisher Broune and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Godey s Lady s Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Godey s Lady s Book and Ladies American Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence as Administered in England and America written by Joseph Story and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China s Millions written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calcutta Weekly Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corpus Juris written by William Mack and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania the County Courts of Philadelphia and the United States District and Circuit Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Social Hygiene written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The adventures of Philip on his way through the world To which is now prefixed A shabby genteel story written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
