Contents: Preface. 1. The girl child/Bela Dutta Gupta. 2. Barriers to fair and proper judicial decision making process in women related issues/Samaresh Banerjea. 3. Emerging necessities of gender balance in law/Gangotri Chakraborty. 4. Gender justice or gendered justice? A sociological exploration or revelation/Bula Bhadra. 5. Gender inequality in right of inheritance/Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya. 6. Gender justice and Hindu succession law/Kabita Chakraborty. 7. Criminal justice system--viewing victimology/Arunabha Barua. 8. Violence against women and the law/Manik Chakrabarty. 9. Empowering women for gender justice by enabling them to fight against Macabre crime/Raghunath Patnaik. 10. Murder of a witch/Sutapa Mukhopaddhyay and Ranjana Ray. 11. Causes and consequences of domestic violence/S. Sanyal. 12. Domestic violence and crimes against women in India/Nirmal Kanti Chakrabarti. 13. License to rape/Dipa Dube. 14. Working women and human rights/Shachi Chakrabarty. 15. Forgotten souls-- women and children in trafficking /Pakhi Biswas. 16. Immoral trafficking of women and girls in India: issues of gender justice and legal control in perspective of cross border trafficking/Sunanda Goenka. 17. Sexual harassment of women at workplace: In India and abroad/Shriniwas Gupta. 18. Sexual harassment -- some case studies/Sohini Banerjee. 19. Human rights and domestic workers of North Calcutta/Nilanjana Chakraborty. 20. Violation of human rights of domestic workers in South Kolkata/Sonal Agarwal. 21. Status of working women in the organised sector in Kolkata/Bannhi Ray. 22. Women contract workers and human rights/Nidhi Mehta. 23. Dignity of women and offence of rape: law and reality/Debasree Lahiri. 24. Gender equality and the judicial system in West Bengal: A research study/Swayam. Appendices.
"The subject 'Gender Justice' is becoming an important component of LL.B. (Hons) curriculum in many universities and it covers many areas of civil and criminal laws. Therefore, this book has made an attempt to compile various aspects of the subject in one volume written by Academicians, Judges, Advocates having knowledge and experience in the area. The present volume focuses on different areas such as the status of girl child, necessity of gender balance in law, gender justice in sociological perspectives, gender inequality in right to inheritance and succession laws, violence against women, witch hunting, marital rape, conditions of women in organised as well as unorganised sectors and the micro-level study of domestic servants at Kolkata.
The book also contains some of the important documents and legislations relating to gender justice such as Universal Declaration of human Rights, SAARC Convention on preventing and combating trafficking in women and children for prostitution. The national Commission for Women Act, The Dowry Prohibition Act, Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, The protection of women from Domestic Violence Act. The book has incorporated both the liberal and critical views of feminist jurisprudence." (jacket)
