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Disputed Legacies: The Pakistan Papers (Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia)

Disputed Legacies: The Pakistan Papers (Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia)

$40.00
Author:Edited by Neelam Hussain
ISBN 13:9789385932090
Binding:Hardbound
Language:English
Year:2019
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology/Women Studies

About the Book

The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the region, a vast body of knowledge on this important – yet silenced – subject. Six country volumes (one each on Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and two on India) comprising over fifty research papers and two book-length studies detail the histories of sexual violence and look at the systemic, institutional, societal, individual and community structures that work together to perpetuate impunity for perpetrators. Disputed Legacies focuses on Pakistan, examining law, pedagogy, medical practice and the situations that arise when ‘secular’ law comes into conflict with traditional practice and belief. The contributors to this volume trace the often-troubled interaction between the state and its women citizens and examine the structures and social systems that enable impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence to gain strength