Event

Bryn Mawr College

Department of Anthropology presents 

with co-sponsorship from the Center for Social Sciences,

History, International Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, 

Growth and Structure of Cities, and the 1902 Lecture Fund

As women’s organizations have mobilized the Indian State since the 1980s to institute a slate of laws on intimate violence, men’s groups (MRAs) have formed in counterpoint to challenge definitions of dowry, violence, economic restitution and punitive criminal apparatuses deployed in cases of family violence. This talk drawn on ethnographic research to document some of the embodied political strategies pursued by Indian MRA groups, and considers their implications for feminist jurisprudence and debates on the relationship between 

gender, power and rights.

 

Srimati Basu is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India(University of California Press, 2015) and numerous articles on law, marriage, and violence in India.