Negotiating Spaces: Legal Domains, Gender Concerns, And Community Constructs

Citizenship At The Margins : Balancing Visibility And Invisibility : The Case Of The Bar Dancer Of Mumbai / Flavia Agnes -- Women In Sex Work : Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad / Meena Saraswathi Seshu -- Waving The 'colour Purple' In The Rainbow Parade / Chayanika Shah -- Crossing Communities : Religious Conversion, Rights In Marriage, And Personal Law / Samita Sen -- Making Our Own Bed, And Then Lying In It : Decisive Women, Adamant Communities, Complicit State / Association For Advocacy And Legal Initiatives (aali) -- Towards Understanding Muslim Social Reform : Jamait-ul-mominath And Its Fatwas For Women / A. Suneetha -- Abortion : Feminist Dilemmas / Nivedita Menon -- Local And Customary Fora : Adapting And Innovating Rules Of Formal Law / Vasudha Nagaraj -- Listening To Women's Voices : Domestic Violence And Women's Negotiations With Law And Public Institutions / Anjali Dave -- Justice Is A Secret : 'compromise' In Rape Trials / Pratiksha Baxi -- Beyond Property Refusal : Indian Women's Discourses Of Inheritance / Srimati Basu -- Negotiating Rights And Relationships : Muslim Women And Inheritance / Nasreen Fazalbhoy -- Bargaining Under The Shadow Of Law : Negotiating Property Rights In Matrimonial Disputes / Flavia Agnes -- Walking The Tightrope : Ensuring Matrimonial Property Rights Of Women Of Goa / Albertina Almeida. Edited By Flavia Agnes, Shoba Venkatesh Ghosh In Association With Majlis Legal Centre. Based On A Conference Organized By Majlis In February, 2010 -- Page Xii. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.