For Lotika Di V
Contributors XI
Acknowledgements XV
Introduction 1
CHAPTER I : LEGAL INSTITUTIONS
Images (1920-1950)
Reasonable Man, Reasonable Women and Reasonable Expectations 33
USHA RAMANATHAN
Human Rights Lawyering: A Feminist Perspective 71
NANDITA HAKSAR
Feminism in Indian Legal Education 89
ARCHANA PARASHAR
CHAPTER II : LEGAL NORMS
Gender Constitution and the Courts 117
SP SATHE
Gender Analysis of the Indian Penal Code 139
VED KUMARI
Women and Criminal Procedure 161
KN CHANDRASEKHARAN PILLAI
Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Law: Europe to the Rescue 173
ANTHONY LESTER
Levelling the Workplace for Women Workers: Equal Remuneration
and Maternity Benefits 183
NEERU CHADHA
Legal aspects of Women's Involvement in Wasteland Development 205
CHHATRAPATI SINGH
Gender Justice and Medical Malfeasance in Consumer Cases 233
DN SARAF
Refugee Women 249
JN SAXENA
CHAPTER III : LAW AND SOCIETY
Kulin Widowhood in Nineteenth Century Bengal-The Life and
Times of Nistarini Debi 257
MALAVIKA KARLEKAR
From Human Rights to the Right to be a Woman 275
UPENDRA BAXI
The case of the Agra Protective Home 291
S MURALIDHAR
Psychologising Dissent: Psychiatric Labelling and Social Control 321
AMITA DHANDA
CHAPTER IV : LAW REFORM
Political Ideology of the Women's Movement's Engagement with Law 339
VINA MAZUMDAR
Uniform Civil Code: Reforms in Christian Family Law 375
ALICE JACOB
Towards Equality: The Long Road Ahead 387
B SIVARAMAYYA
Subject Index 407