Mutinies for Equality: Contemporary Developments in Law and Gender in India
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Author: | Edited by Tanja Herklotz and Siddharth Peter de Souza |
ISBN 13: | 9781108834063 |
Binding: | Hardbound |
Language: | English |
Year: | 2022 |
Subject: | Law |
About the Book
Mutinies for Equality studies recent transformations in the area of law and gender in modern India. It tackles legal and social developments with regard to family life, sexuality, motherhood, surrogacy, erotic labour, sexual harassment in the workplace and violence against
women, among others. It analyses reform efforts towards women's rights and LGBTIQ rights and attempts to situate where a reform has taken place, by whom it was brought about, and what impact it has had on society. It engages with protagonists who shape the debate around law and gender and locates their efforts into a socio-political context, thereby showing that the discourses around law and gender are closely connected to broader debates around legal pluralism, secularism and religion, identity, culture, nationalism, and family. The book offers compelling evidence that the drivers of change are emerging from beyond the traditional institutions of courts and parliament, and that to understand the everyday implications of legal reforms, it is important to look beyond these institutional sources.
About the Author
Tanja Herklotz, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Public and Comparative Law at Humboldt-University of Berlin and the principal investigator of two Indo-European research projects on legal cultures and transformative constitutionalism that are funded by the DAAD. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Warwick, the Center for the Study of Law and Society at Berkeley Law and the Centre of Law and Society at Cardiff University. Her research interests and areas of publication include comparative constitutional law with a particular focus on the Global South, law and gender, legal pluralism and religion-based law, and law and social movements. In her PhD project entitled 'Streets and Courtrooms: Feminist Legal Activism in India' (pursued at Humboldt-University of Berlin), she assessed the impact of the Indian women's rights movement on legislation and case law.
Siddharth Peter de Souza is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Law, Technology Markets and Society, Tilburg University and works at the intersection of data and society. He was previously a researcher at the Chair of Public Law and Comparative Law, Humboldt University. He has an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge and was a German Chancellor Fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and Rule of Law, Heidelberg. Siddharth is also the founder of Justice Adda, a law and design social venture and a researcher with the FemLab.Co project. Siddharth has edited two books, Crowdsourcing, Constructing and Collaborating: Methods and Social Impacts of Mapping with World Today with Nida Rehman and Saba Sharma (2020) and Technology, Innovation and Access to Justice: Dialogues on the Future of Law with Maximilian Spohr (2021).