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Gender, Law, and Resistance in India
Erin P. Moore
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Description for Gender, Law, and Resistance in India
Paperback. Num Pages: 205 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ; JHBK; LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.
Theft, poisoning, affairs, flights home, refusals to work, eat or have sex, threats to divide the joint household, and sly acts of sabotage are some of the domestic warfare tactics employed by Muslim women attempting to resist patriarchy. Gender, Law, and Resistance in India dramatically illustrates how a patriarchal ideology is upheld and reinforced through male-governed social and legal institutions and how women defy that control. Based on anthropological fieldwork in rural Rajasthan in northern India, Erin Moore's book details the life of an extended Muslim family she has known for twenty years. In many ways the plight of the ... Read more
Theft, poisoning, affairs, flights home, refusals to work, eat or have sex, threats to divide the joint household, and sly acts of sabotage are some of the domestic warfare tactics employed by Muslim women attempting to resist patriarchy. Gender, Law, and Resistance in India dramatically illustrates how a patriarchal ideology is upheld and reinforced through male-governed social and legal institutions and how women defy that control. Based on anthropological fieldwork in rural Rajasthan in northern India, Erin Moore's book details the life of an extended Muslim family she has known for twenty years. In many ways the plight of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816522385
SKU
V9780816522385
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