Negotiating spaces : legal domains, gender concerns, and community constructs /
edited by Flavia Agnes, Shoba Venkatesh Ghosh in association with Majlis Legal Centre.
- xxvii, 385 pages ; 22 cm.
Based on a conference organized by Majlis in February, 2010 -- Page xii.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Citizenship at the margins : balancing visibility and invisibility : the case of the bar dancer of Mumbai / Women in sex work : Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad / Waving the 'colour purple' in the rainbow parade / Crossing communities : religious conversion, rights in marriage, and personal law / Making our own bed, and then lying in it : decisive women, adamant communities, complicit state / Towards understanding Muslim social reform : Jamait-ul-Mominath and its fatwas for women / Abortion : feminist dilemmas / Local and customary fora : adapting and innovating rules of formal law / Listening to women's voices : domestic violence and women's negotiations with law and public institutions / Justice is a secret : 'compromise' in rape trials / Beyond property refusal : Indian women's discourses of inheritance / Negotiating rights and relationships : Muslim women and inheritance / Bargaining under the shadow of law : negotiating property rights in matrimonial disputes / Walking the tightrope : ensuring matrimonial property rights of women of Goa / Flavia Agnes -- Meena Saraswathi Seshu -- Chayanika Shah -- Samita Sen -- Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives (AALI) -- A. Suneetha -- Nivedita Menon -- Vasudha Nagaraj -- Anjali Dave -- Pratiksha Baxi -- Srimati Basu -- Nasreen Fazalbhoy -- Flavia Agnes -- Albertina Almeida.