The allocation of scarce budgetary resources away from ‘alternative’ channels of social security underscores interlocking concerns: a) the financial drain that marriages of girls pose to families and...
On 09 Mar 2016 This
paper draws upon a selection of narratives from interviews with over
150 less skilled emigrant and returnee women workers from Trivandrum
district to argue that the conditions that structure i...
On 14 Jul 2014 Restrictions imposed by the Government of India on the
emigration of women in ‘unskilled’ categories such as domestic work
are framed as measures intended to protect women from exploitation.
Specia...
On 24 Oct 2011 Broken Mirrors: The Dowry Problem in India by Robin Wyatt and Nazia Masood,Sage, Publications, 2010, 244 pages and costs 350/-
On 02 Jun 2011 Colonial judges and jurists interpreted matrilineal customs in
terms of a theory of matrilineal law, which they shaped in the process of
interpretation, rather than on the basis of existing practice...
On 18 Nov 2010 This note takes stock of relevant gender aspects of contemporary personal laws and land legislation in Kerala, sums up the shift to marriage as the dominant site of property relations for women; and i...
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