Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Enslaved Daughters : Colonialism, Law and Womena€™s Rights, EPUB eBook

Enslaved Daughters : Colonialism, Law and Womena€™s Rights EPUB

EPUB

Download - Immediately Available
Please note: eBooks can only be purchased with a UK issued credit card and all our eBooks (ePub and PDF) are DRM protected.

Description

This is the second edition of a remarkable study of a young woman's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy and the colonial legal establishment in the late nineteenth century India.

It revolves around a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights' filed against Rukhmabai, who was married at age eleven and refused to go and live with her husband.

This lucid and engaging account captures the dramatic unfolding of the litigation, as well as the huge social and political debate set off by it.

The narrative skilfully weaves together the details of the case with larger issues of gender and law, colonialism, culture, reform, and modernity.

This edition includes a new Afterword in which the author analyses a vexatious libel case into which the rival party dragged Rukhmabai with a view to breaking her will, even before the original suit has been settled.

This book will interest students and scholars of gender studies, family law, feminist perspective of history, legal history, and also general readers.

Information

Save 15%

£9.99

£8.49

Download - Immediately Available
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Delivered to your inbox

to transfer to your device

eBook Help

Is this the right eBook for
my device? How do I download
this eBook? See help and FAQs pages

Information