Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. 1 Introduction: Women, Citizenship, Law, and the Indian State 1
6. I Women in Custody
7. 2 The Ameena ‘‘Case’’: The Female Citizen and Subject 41
8. 3 Beyond the Hysterectomies Scandal: Women, the Institution, Family, and State 72
9. II Women in Law
10. 4 The Prostitution Question(s): Female Agency, Sexuality, and Work 117
11. 5 Women Between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform Civil Code Debates 147
12. III Killing Women
13. 6 Children of the State? Unwanted Girls in Rural Tamilnadu 177
14. 7 Outlaw Woman: The Politics of Phoolan Devi’s Surrender, 1983 212
15. Notes 237
16. References 279
17. Index 301