TY - BOOK AU - Shirwadkar, Swati TI - Family Violence in India: : human rights, issues, actions, and International comparisons SN - 9788131602249 U1 - 362.82920954 PY - 2016/// CY - Kolkata PB - Rawat KW - PHD KW - HUMAN RIGHTS N1 - Introduction / Swati Shirwadkar -- SECTION ONE: Human and Legal Rights -- On the fringes of human rights discourse: Violence against women in intimate relationships / Veena Poonacha -- Human rights movement and domestic violence--an uneven terrain: Reflections on the human rights movement in Andhra Pradesh / U. Vindhya -- Captive subjects: Gender, intimate violence and the crises of international human rights interventions / Oishik Sircar -- Age of marriage and the debate on human rights / Jaya Sagade -- Taking women seriously: An introspection on law's engagement with the evil of dowry / Sanjay S. Jain -- Family violence with special reference to Section 498A of Indian Penal Code / Meena Gokhale -- Violence against women in the family: A human rights violation? / S. Elizabeth -- Child sexual abuse: A violation of human rights? / Shalini S. Phansalkar-Joshi -- Cruelty and physical torture against children in family: Socio-legal dimensions / Durgambini Patel. SECTION TWO: Contextual Issues in Indian Family Violence -- Declining sex ratios in Maharashtra: Gift of technological advance / Sanjeevanee Mulay -- Globalizing India and domestic violence against women / Ranjana Kumari -- Married men's perspective: Attitude towards wife beating / Savita Kanade -- Ending domestic violence: Self-help groups can help / Milind Bokil -- Battered and bound in their own homes: Does family violence have an answer? / R. Indira -- SECTION THREE: Special Topics for Indian Research -- Witchcraft, witches and social exclusion / Kanchan Mathur -- Emotional abuse in family, an act of power play: A human rights debate with special reference to scleroderma patients / K. Asha -- Desh-Pardesh: Indian immigrants and Canadian domestic violence policies / Swati Shirwadkar -- SECTION FOUR: International Campaigns -- A sociological overview of the domestic violence field in the United States / Edward W. Gondolf -- Domestic violence: Comparative analysis of German and British research findings / Helmut Kury and Ursula Smartt -- Violence against women in France, in light of the Indian debate / Hugues Lagrange -- Local solutions for global problems: The challenges encountered by the anti-domestic violence campaign in Armenia / Armine Ishkanian -- SECTION FIVE: Conclusion -- Family violence and human rights / Justice Sujata Manohar ER -