Mutinies for Equality

Mutinies for Equality studies recent transformations in the area of law and gender in modern India. It tackles legal and social developments with regard to family life sexuality motherhood surrogacy erotic labour sexual harassment in the workplace and violence against women among others. It analyses reform efforts towards womens rights and LGBTIQ rights and attempts to situate where a reform has taken place by whom it was brought about and what impact it has had on society. It engages with protagonists who shape the debate around law and gender and locates their efforts into a socio-political context thereby showing that the discourses around law and gender are closely connected to broader debates around legal pluralism secularism and religion identity culture nationalism and family. The book offers compelling evidence that the drivers of change are emerging from beyond the traditional institutions of courts and parliament and that to understand the everyday implications of legal reforms it is important to look beyond these institutional sources.