Author : Kalpana Kannabirān
Publisher : Women Unlimited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Violence of Normal Times by : Kalpana Kannabirān
Download or read book The Violence of Normal Times written by Kalpana Kannabirān and published by Women Unlimited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks 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 structural adjustment programmes and economic violence against sexually marginalised 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 routine that everyday forms of it slide into the gross and macabre in a seamless continuum.