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The Violence of Normal Times

 
Kalpana Kannabiran (Editor)
Synopsis This volume attempts to look at the experience and articulation of violence against women in relation to feminist debates and organizing on the issue, and the positive/negative responses to that articulation, particularly from the standpoint of law and the institutional apparatuses of the State. Its several essays focus on everyday settings: form justice dispensed by traditional authorities to modern courtrooms; domestic spaces; a home for mentally disabled women in Pune; a factory in Tamil Nadu. Moving from the routine to the extraordinary, the essays analyse the spectrum of violence against women that covers witch-hunting in adivasi communities; structural adjustment programmes and economic violence; violence against sexually marginalized groups; and against women of religious and ethnic minorities. Read together, they expose the extent of systemic violence against women in India, a violence so routinised that everyday forms of it slide into the gross and macabre in a seamless continuum.
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About the author

Kalpana Kannabiran

Kalpana Kannabiran is a founder member of Asmita Resource Centre for Women, Secunderabad, and teaches sociology and law at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. With Vasanth Kannabiran she has co-authored De-Eroticising Assault: Essays on Modesty, Honour and Power (2000), and translated from the original Tamil, Web of Deceit, a novel by uvalur A. Ramamirthammal (2003). She received the VKRV Rao Award for Social Science Research in 2003, for her work on teh social aspects of law.

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Bibliographic information

Title The Violence of Normal Times
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.2005
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Women Unlimited
Language: English
isbn 8188965065
length xii+386p., 23cm.