Browsing by Subject "Domestic Violence"

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Behind Closed Doors: Is the ‘Personal’ Political?
(University of North Bengal, 2013-10) Gonsalves, Trijita; Gonsalves, Sushmita
From time immemorial, Indian society is patriarchal. Women have found it impossible to go beyond the field of patriarchal power. But, since Indian independence, efforts were made to make our society more egalitarian vis-a-vis women. In this paper, we identify two areas where the Indian State has dismally failed to protect women - female foeticide and marital rape. They constitute two of the most intimate concerns of a married woman’s life, through which a husband assumes power over the most private part of her life – her body and it becomes a site of violence. This paper concludes by arguing that laws in themselves are not enough. It is time that we women fought our battles ourselves.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS Protection of Women from Domestic Violence: Legal Challenges and Issues
(University of North Bengal, 2023-03) Choudhury, Mun; Dhar Sarkar, Madhumita
Domestic Violence against the women is an age-old reality which is being inflicted upon women irrespective of age, caste and religion. Domestic violence can take the form of physical, sexual, emotional or psychological abuse by an intimate partner or former partner. Many women till date faces intimate partner violence behind the closed doors in our Indian society. Domestic Violence is a universal issue and it is a direct violation of women’s basic human rights. The feminist movement have played a major role in demands for legislative actions, changes in laws and criminal procedures and the sensitization of police and judiciary for the protection of women from domestic violence. Existence of domestic violence is morally unjustifiable and has a far deeper impact than the immediate harm caused on women. India implemented its first law i.e., The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence, 2005 to curb domestic violence.
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Sociological Dimensions of Rape within Marriage Vis A` Vis a Married Woman’s Right to Her Own Person
(University of North Bengal, 2024-03) Mozika, Jyoti J.; Singh, Arpita
Legal thinker, William Blackstone wrote in late 1760’s that “by marriage the husband and the wife are one person in law; that is, the very being or legal existence of woman is suspended in marriage”. Reflecting upon this principle, a married woman’s legal identity would merge with her husband’s, where she had to abdicate her right after marriage. The institution of marriage became central to debates about the position of women in the nineteenth century, in which gendered and classed notions of equality restricted women’s rights within marriage. This article explores the sociology of marriage and various obligations imposed either by societal values or norms on the husband and the wife. It briefly discusses concepts related to marriage, such as – marital unity and authority, right of chastisement, rights of individuals within marriage and domestic/intimate partner violence. It also deals with the concept of right to equality and a married woman’s right to her own person in relation to her marital obligations.