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Book Chapter
Recasting the Normative National Family
2014
Overview
This chapter explores the changes since the 1960s in Hindu law, which increased divorce rights and the rights of daughters in family joint property, and in commonly applicable matrimonial laws, which strengthened alimony entitlements and support for women and children facing domestic violence. These changes made nuclear-family membership more important and patrilineal kinship less important as a basis of rights and responsibilities, and promoted conjugal autonomy and women's entitlements. Decline in lineage power and the importance of landed property combined with the growth of rights organizations and policy institutions that address gender relations enabled these reforms. Political elites and judges only promoted changes in family practices they felt they had a basis in indigenous cultures, and politicians continued to seek broad coalitions. This dissuaded changes that could empower women such as dissolving joint property and restricting testamentary rights, but not a recent proposal to recognize rights in matrimonial property.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780804788786, 0804788782
