The Law’s Gender: Entanglements and Recursions — Three Stories from Sri Lanka

Our essay examines the recursions, rationalities, limits, and promise of the law drawing on three recent cases of women who encountered law enforcement authorities and the courts in Sri Lanka. It provides a strong account of how dominant gender norms are mobilized to determine who is afforded the sa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Neloufer de Mel, Dinesha Samararatne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture 2017-07-01
Series:On_Culture
Subjects:
law
Online Access:https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-3/de-mel-samararatne-laws-gender/