Women and Law

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Description
In the earlier plethora of writing on women in India, women were the objects of study and were viewed as the "other" by the authors, who were men. The voices of the women themselves were muted, and they were present more a functions of a particular literary or religious situation than as functions of authority in their own right. Women Hinduism and Islam belongs to a new gene that talks about those and more. This books is an attempt to critically appreciate modes of social behaviour from the tradition's own perspective. Because of the limitations, working on socio-legal problems, especially in the case of Women, becomes more difficult task.
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Contents
Introduction
Chapter I                     :    Women, Equality and the Constitution
Chapter II [Part-I]      :    Hindu Women and Maintenance Laws 76
Chapter II [Part -II]    :    Property Rights of Hindu Women
Chapter III [Part-I]     :    Status of Women Islam and Maintenance Laws
Chapter IIII [Part-II]   :    Status of Muslim Women During Jahiliyah (Period of Ignorance)
Chapter IV                   :    Offences against Women : Review of Recent Enactments
Chapter V                    :    Women and Application of Criminal Law
Chapter VI                   :    The National Commission for Women and Gender Sensitisation
Appendices
1.    Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against women (CEDAW)
2.    The Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987
3.    The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1987
4.    Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
5.    The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971
6.    The National Commission for Women Act, 1990
7.    The Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994
8.    The Protection of Women fro Domestic Violence Act, 2005
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