Women and Colonial Law

2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-59700-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

Reihe: Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches

This book introduces students of law and history to key colonial moments that have shaped women's legal status up to the present day. It introduces students and general readers to the critical events and legal decisions that determined the place of women under law. It also introduces readers to terms that are critical to understanding women's legal status in India today. In addition to bringing together the latest developments in Indian historical research with advances in feminist legal studies, it tracks the shifts and changes that have occurred, especially over the last 30 years, to feminist standpoints on women and law. Using examples and cases from different regions of India, it also weaves together a complex and nuanced account of colonial social history more generally. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nair, Janaki

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Women and Colonial Law-A Feminist Social History; 2. The Foundations of Modern Legal Structures in India; 3. The Widow and Her Rights Redefined; 4. Female Childhood in Focus; 5. Labour Legislation and the Woman Worker; 6. Votes, Reserved Seats and Women's Participation; 7. Family Forms, Sexualities and Reconstituted Patriarchies; 8. Personal Laws under Colonial Rule; 9. Towards a Uniform Civil Code-and Beyond; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Nair, Janaki
Janaki Nair retired as a professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in 2020. She had also been associated with the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, and the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. Her published works include Miners and Millhands: Work Culture and Politics in Princely Mysore (1998), The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore's Twentieth Century (2005) for which she won the New India Foundation Book Prize and Mysore Modern: Rethinking the Region under Princely Rule (2011–12). She has also published widely in national and international journals. Additionally, she has held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley; University of Würzburg; German Historical Institute London; National Museum of Ethnology (Japan), Suita; and Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.