Abstract
In this talk, I problematize protection by evaluating cultural discourses of rape in the context of criminal and judicial deployments of rape law, and their intersections with marriage law and mediation. What crises do these deployments pose for feminist reliance on law, and for questions of sexual and social agency?
Bio
Srimati Basu is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, working on property, law, marriage, intimacy, violence and popular culture. She is the author of the monographsThe Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India (University of California Press, 2015) and She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property and Propriety (SUNY Press, 1999), has edited the Dowry and Inheritance volume in the Women Unlimited series Issues in Indian Feminism (2005), and co-edited (with Lucinda Ramberg) the anthology Conjugality Unbound: Sexual Economy and the Marital Form in India (Women Unlimited, 2014).
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