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

ISBN-13: 9780815351092 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 228 str.

Skylab Sahu

Opis

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. 

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Sex Selective Abortion: A Feminist Interpretation of Legal Dilemmas and Policy Initiatives in India  3. Impunity Assured and Impunity Snatched: The State and the Discourse of Rape in India  4.  Normalisation of Domestic Violence in India  5. Sex Work in India: Invisible Labour, Deviant Sexuality and Experience of Violence 6. Citizenship and Transgenders: Analysing the Legal and Policy Discourse in India  7. State, Law and Resistance

O autorze

Skylab Sahu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Miranda House, University of Delhi, India. She specializes in gender studies, political theory, and Indian government and politics. Her research articles have been published in several national and international peer reviewed journals such as Studies in Indian Politics, Sociological Bulletin, Journal of Social and Economic Development, Journal of Health Management, Indian Journal of Political Science, Indian Journal of Social Work, among others. She is the author of Gender, Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS: Exploring Politics of Women's Health in India (2015).