Law and Gender : A Quest for Justice
Contents: Preface. I. Women and crimes: 1. Victimization of women and girls and development of information technology: a critique of law and realty in perspective of cyber pornography/Nirmal Kanti Chakrabarti. 2. Section 498a IPC: shield or sword/Rakesh Verma. 3. Domestic violence: threat for gender justice vis-a-vis human rights at home: an evaluation of relevant Indian legislations/M.K. Bhandari. 4. Violence against women with disabilities: a dark side of gender justice/Rathin Bandyopadhyay and Sangeeta Roy. 5. Socio-legal control of child trafficking and prostitution in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal: problem and perspective/V.S. Chauhan and Jinia Kundu. 6. Indian judicial initiative to combat domestic violence/Mona Purohit. 7. Victimological study of trafficking of women and children in South East Asia with special reference to India: a critical analysis/Sunanda Goenka. 8. Flaws in the rape law: an impediments of justice/Pawan Kumar Mishra. 9. Sexual harassment of women at workplace : a new frame work of further harassment/Om Prakash Sharma. 10. Prostitution in India: a reflection on the efficacy of law enforcement machinery/Neelam Rai. 11. Domestic violence: a real shame for India/P. George Giri and Mohi Kumari. II. Gender justice: law and reality: 12. Surrogate motherhood and law/Jyoti J. Mozika. 13. Surrogacy and human rights: legal and ethical issues/Sanjeev Kumar Tiwari and Partha Sarathi Adhya. 14. Legalizing surrogacy in India: an overview/Tejinder K. Soni. 15. Surrogacy under Indian legal system--a critique/Babu Sarkar. 16. Regulating surrogacy in India: protect the voiceless/Divya Tyagi. III. Gender equality and constitution: 17. Women empowerment a sine qua non for gender justice/Subhram Rajkhowa and Stuti Deka. 18. Women empowerment through various legislations: a myth or reality/J.U. Nanavaty. 19. Dynamics of gender justice: an overview/Smita Vyas. 20. Women empowerment and matrilineal society: an analysis with special reference to Meghalaya/Arun Kumar Singh and Daphira Shoutan. 21. Gender justice within parliament: a legal panorama/Swati Sinha. 22. Law relating to homosexuality is risking its normative power as a force for promoting gender equality/Biswajit Chatterjee, Swarnendu Chatterjee and Mrinalini Prasad. 23. Social exclusion of Dalit women: a profile of Uttar Pradesh/Sangeeta Krishna. 24. Women empowerment in Indian legal context: an overview/Pankaj Dwivedi and Sunita Singh. IV. Gender justice in human rights context: 25. Women\'s dignity and human rights: an introspection in gender justice perspective/Rajendra Dhar Dubey. 26. Law, gender and cultural consciousness: contextualizing reproductive rights/Tapan R. Mohanty. 27. Women\'s rights to abortion vis-a-vis rights of unborn foetus: human rights perspective/Kavita Singh. 28. Female foeticide: unborn victims of violence-need of ethico legal approach/Nidhi Saxena. 29. Abortion rights to women in India: an analysis under modern legal context/Amrendra Kumar Ajit and Pranati Kumari. 30. Female genital mutilation (FGM): defy for women\'s human rights within the corpse of refugee law/Mithilesh Narayan Bhatt. 31. Women and human rights in India: an analytical/Tanmay Sen. V. Women and personal laws: 32. Gender justice in Muslim custody law: trend in South Asian courts/M. Momin. 33. Gender justice, women empowerment and Hindu succession (amendment) act, 2005/Prakash Chandra Shukla and Sunita Shukla. 34. Hindu woman\'s property rights: a gender justice perspective/Anand Kumar Tripathi. 35. Gender equality and justice: Islamic perspective/Sharif Uddin.
Law and Gender : A Quest for Justice is a comprehensive study of gender justice and gender equality. Since long period in history, women have been subjected to deprivation, legally denied rights and privileges enjoyed by men. Even today, equal rights between men and women in a broader sense are still as much contested terrain in different parts of the world. In spite of the fact that laws to safeguard women\'s status and their interests in our country are quite adequate it seems that status of women in our society has not achieved the desired standards and their interests are badly ignored and contrarily, violence against them is increasing day by day. The implementation of the laws made fort the protection of women through out the country is so poor that there is very little protection available to them in reality.
The message of the book is that in order to strive for women rights, human rights, dignity, equality and womanhood and to do away with discrimination and gender injustice women must fight back for their legitimate place in the society. Women with awareness of the various laws and legal education may play a significant role to assert their rights and status in a dynamic society for social peace, social progress and to achieve the desired goals of socio-economic and political laws meant for their development in all respect.
At present judiciary, social organizations and similar other organizations have became conscious of the plight with which women are passing through these days. These agencies are not simply onlookers rather they are actively engaged to solved the various problems of women. Today, the problems such as divorce, maintenance, dowry, cruelty, sexual exploitation, pornography, devdasi, trafficking, import and export of minor girls for sexual exploitation, domestic violence, and indecent representation and over and above dowry deaths are not unknown to any one. These problems have reached on alarming stage and need a proper solution immediately. It provides n in-depth analysis of issues and problems of women vis-a-vis personal laws, constitutional law, human rights, gender justice, criminal law and social change in a wider social framework. It offers new socio-legal, socio-economic and socio-political dimensions that make Indian women more valuable to insecurity, exploitation and degradation. This scholarly work is both broad in scope and extremely rich in detail. The readers will find this a very useful reference book as well as a general text. Besides, the law students, teachers, advocates and NGOs this book is also meant for the students of human rights, women studies, home science, and social studies. (jacket)
Law and Gender : A Quest for Justice is a comprehensive study of gender justice and gender equality. Since long period in history, women have been subjected to deprivation, legally denied rights and privileges enjoyed by men. Even today, equal rights between men and women in a broader sense are still as much contested terrain in different parts of the world. In spite of the fact that laws to safeguard women\'s status and their interests in our country are quite adequate it seems that status of women in our society has not achieved the desired standards and their interests are badly ignored and contrarily, violence against them is increasing day by day. The implementation of the laws made fort the protection of women through out the country is so poor that there is very little protection available to them in reality.
The message of the book is that in order to strive for women rights, human rights, dignity, equality and womanhood and to do away with discrimination and gender injustice women must fight back for their legitimate place in the society. Women with awareness of the various laws and legal education may play a significant role to assert their rights and status in a dynamic society for social peace, social progress and to achieve the desired goals of socio-economic and political laws meant for their development in all respect.
At present judiciary, social organizations and similar other organizations have became conscious of the plight with which women are passing through these days. These agencies are not simply onlookers rather they are actively engaged to solved the various problems of women. Today, the problems such as divorce, maintenance, dowry, cruelty, sexual exploitation, pornography, devdasi, trafficking, import and export of minor girls for sexual exploitation, domestic violence, and indecent representation and over and above dowry deaths are not unknown to any one. These problems have reached on alarming stage and need a proper solution immediately. It provides n in-depth analysis of issues and problems of women vis-a-vis personal laws, constitutional law, human rights, gender justice, criminal law and social change in a wider social framework. It offers new socio-legal, socio-economic and socio-political dimensions that make Indian women more valuable to insecurity, exploitation and degradation. This scholarly work is both broad in scope and extremely rich in detail. The readers will find this a very useful reference book as well as a general text. Besides, the law students, teachers, advocates and NGOs this book is also meant for the students of human rights, women studies, home science, and social studies. (jacket)
