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Gender Justice and Women’s Courts in Rural South India Negotiating Family Disputes and Social Dynamics

By Sarah Potthoff Copyright 2027
184 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores gender justice, power relations, and social transformation in India by providing an ethnographic, socio-legal view of Nari Adalats (women’s courts) and the family disputes that take place before them, in rural northern Karnataka, South India. The book offers an ethnography of the everyday workings of Nari Adalats based on qualitative interviews, document analysis, and... Read more

1. Gender Justice between Women's Rights and Everyday Realities of Women     

2. Organizations' and Forums' Histories: Interrelating Trust and Confidence          

3. The Nari Adalats Judges and Jury Members' Trajectories: Alliance Building and Place    Making          

4. The Court in Action: Un-doing Justice                 

5. The temporal Dimensions of changing Gender Relations within Marriage and the Family

6. Agency Between Social Adjustment and Resistance: Negotiating Gender Justice and Social  

 Dynamics

Biography

Sarah Potthoff is a sociologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Münster in Germany.  She possesses extensive experience in qualitative research and specializes in microsociology — with a particular focus in recent years on the social dimensions of health and the experience of chronic and invisible illnesses. In 2016, she earned her doctorate at Bielefeld University with a dissertation on gender justice and women's courts in India. She has published contributions in various international academic journals.