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THE
VIOLENCE OF NORMAL TIMES: ESSAYS
ON WOMEN'S LIVED REALITIES
Kalpana Kannabiran
(Ed.)
Rs. 500 Hb 2005
81-88965-06-5
(All rights available)
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This
volume attempts to look at the experience and articulation
of violence against women in relation to feminist
debates and organising 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: from
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;
the structural adjustment programmes and economic
violence; violence against sexual minorities; and
against women of religious and ethnic minorities.
Read together, these essays 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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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 Vasant 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 Muvalur A. Ramamirthammal (2003). She
received the V.K.R.V. Rao Award for Social Science
Research in 2003, for her work on the social aspects
of law. |
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