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Author Mukhopadhyay, Amrita, author.

Title The social and legal regulation of domestic violence in the Kesarwani community : Kolkata, India and beyond / Amrita Mukhopadhyay
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource
Series Directions and development in criminal justice and law
Contents Gendered Violence in India -- The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 -- Symbolic Violence and Kesarwani Women in Kolkata -- Physical Violence within the Kesarwani Community -- The Domestic Violence Framework in Kolkata
Summary "This book examines the social and legal regulation of domestic violence (DV) within the Kesarwani business community following the enactment of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005. It analyses the existence of the formal law in Kolkata and the relevance of the law in the familial lives of the Kesarwani community. The book offers a new conceptualisation of examining the relationship between formal law and social life. It provides a deep insight into how living with violence becomes a way of living and how the disposition to familial violence exists with social advantage and privilege. Explaining the functioning of the formal DV framework in non-legal terms as it exists on the paper, the book shows the ways in which this one law sought to democratise the family unit and overhaul the legal process in favour of DV victims in India. Most of all it hopes to show through the Kolkata study that caste and class, social structures that regulate and define social life globally, must remain critical to discussions of the social and legal regulation of DV in Kolkata, India or anywhere in the world. The book uses ethnography as a research methodology and traverses different locations in the Kesarwani community, and outside the community in Kolkata, to examine the relevance of the formal law in the lives of Kesarwani women. While the study is in India (and in a non-western context), the theme of the study - the social and legal regulation - remains relevant to contemporary debates on the efficacy of formal law in addressing coercive control in the western world. Notably, the book makes the formal domestic violence law legible for non-legal professionals by explaining the formal legal framework of domestic violence envisaged in the PWDVA. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of law, criminal justice, sociology, anthropology, women's studies, and political science. It will also appeal to social service providers and practitioners working in the area of domestic violence, legal regulation, social control of women, gender, caste, class and family business"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Western Sydney University, 2020) issued under title: The social and legal regulation of domestic violence : examining the implementation of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 in the Kesarwani community, Kolkata
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject India. Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
SUBJECT Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (India) fast (OCoLC)fst01916312
Subject Family violence -- Law and legislation -- India
Wife abuse -- Law and legislation -- India
Family violence -- India -- Kolkata
Wife abuse -- India -- Kolkata
Family violence.
Family violence -- Law and legislation.
Wife abuse.
Wife abuse -- Law and legislation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
India.
India -- Kolkata.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022011278
ISBN 9781003283171
1003283179
9781000643749
1000643743
9781000643725
1000643727