Family Violence in India : Human Rights Issues Actions and International Comparisons
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Published by Rawat, 2009
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Contents Introduction/Swati Shirwadkar. I. Human and legal rights 1. On the fringes of human rights discourse violence against women in intimate relationships/Veena Poonacha. 2. Human Rights Movement and Domestic Violence an uneven terrain reflections on the Human Rights Movement in Andhra Pradesh/U. Vindhya. 3. Captive subjects gender intimate violence and the crises of international human rights interventions/Oishik Sircar. 4. Age of marriage and the debate on human rights/Jaya Sagade. 5. Taking women seriously an introspection on law's engagement with the evil of dowry/Sanjay S. Jain. 6. Family violence with special reference to section 498A of Indian Penal Code/Meena Gokhale. 7. Violence against women in the family a human rights violation/V.S. Elizabeth. 8. Child sexual abuse a violation of human rights/Shalini S. Phansalkar Joshi. 9. Cruelty and physical torture against children in family socio legal dimensions/Durgambini Patel. II. Contextual issues in Indian family violence 10. Declining sex ratios in Maharashtra gift of technological advance/Sanjeevanee Mulay. 11. Globalizing India and domestic violence against women/Ranjana Kumari. 12. Married men's perspective attitude towards wife beating/Savita Kanade. 13. Ending domestic violence Self Help Groups can help/Milind Bokil. 14. Battered and bound in their own homes does family violence have an answer/R. Indira. III. Special topics for Indian research 15. Witchcraft witches and social exclusion/Kanchan Mathur. 16. Emotional abuse in family an act of power play a human rights debate with special reference to Scleroderma patients/K. Asha. 17. Desh Pardesh Indian Immigrants and Canadian Domestic Violence Policies/Swati Shirwadkar. IV. International campaigns 18. A sociological overview of the domestic violence field in the United States/Edward W. Gondolf. 19. Domestic violence comparative analysis of German and British research findings/Helmut Kury and Ursula Smartt. 20. Violence against women in France in light of the Indian debate/Hugues Lagrange. 21. Local solutions for global problems the challenges encountered by the anti domestic violence campaign in Armenia/Armine Ishkanian. V. Conclusion 22. Family violence and human rights/Justice Sujata Manohar. Index. Current research and factual data from all over the world have revealed different types of abuse taking place within the family which highlights the necessity to address the issue of family violence. However at societal level family matters are still seen as a private domain not to be intervened due to the culture of silence. Looking at the issue of family violence in the human rights perspective and the legal context this volume explores the socio cultural factors and the patriarchal prerogatives enmeshed in the process of development and globalization in India. The need for both qualitative and quantitative research is demonstrated through the articles. The volume presents cross cultural research in order to balance the local and global perspectives (including countries such as U.S. Canada Germany U.K. France and Armenia). With the human rights perspective the papers present complexities of intervention different aspects of violence within the family and against the special groups contextual issues and limitations and Dilemmas of ideologies and the local barriers to intervention strategies. Collectively they show some direction of social change and therefore will be of immense help to those interested in the subject. 484 pp. …
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- Family Violence in India : Human Rights Issues Actions and International Comparisons
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- Swati Shriwadkar
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- Rawat
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- 2009
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- 9788131602249
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