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Public secrets of law : rape trials in India / Pratiksha Baxi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199082698 (ebook) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:
  • 345.5402532 23
LOC classification:
  • KNS4202
Online resources: Summary: 'Public Secrets of Law' describes the everyday socio-legal processes that underlie the making of rape trials in Indian courts. Based on an ethnographic project in the rural District and Sessions Court in Ahmedabad (Gujarat), as well as critical readings of the juridical archive, it demonstrates how rape trials furnish scripts of the social via the judicialised bodies of violated women.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Public Secrets of Law' describes the everyday socio-legal processes that underlie the making of rape trials in Indian courts. Based on an ethnographic project in the rural District and Sessions Court in Ahmedabad (Gujarat), as well as critical readings of the juridical archive, it demonstrates how rape trials furnish scripts of the social via the judicialised bodies of violated women.

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