Talk:Srimati Basu

By Anirudha Patel

Srimati Basu is a Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and Anthropology at the College of Arts & Sciences, University of Kentucky as of July 2023. According to her University Profile, her research interests are Law; Social Theory; Masculinities Studies; Violence; and Marriage and Kinship.

In 2021 she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to India

Books

1. Basu, Srimati. The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India. University of California Press, 2015. http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520282452.

Also published by Orient Blackswan, 2015. http://www.orientblackswan.com/display.asp?categoryID=0&isbn=978-81-250.

1. Basu, Srimati, and Lucinda Ramberg, editors. Conjugality Unbound: Sexual Economies, State Regulation and the Marital Form in India. Women Unlimited, 2014. http://www.amazon.com/Conjugality-Unbound-Economies-Regulation-Marital.
2. Basu, Srimati. She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property and Propriety. State University of New York Press, 1999. Also published by Kali for Women, 2001. http://www.amazon.com/She-Comes-Take-Her-Rights/dp/0791440966/ref=la_B001ICBPIU_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338476627&sr=1-1.
3. Basu, Srimati, editor. Issues in Indian Feminism: Dowry and Inheritance. Women Unlimited, 2005. http://www.amazon.com/Inheritance-Issues-Contemporary-Indian-Feminism/dp/1842776665.

Journal Articles

1. Basu, Srimati. “The End(s) of Marriage: Feminists, Antifeminists and Indian Law.” Feminist Anthropology, vol. 1, no. 2, 2020, pp. 184-191. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/fea2.12024.
2. Basu, Srimati. “The Cinematic Pleasures of Indian Men’s Rights Activists.” Critical Analysis of Law, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 63-81. https://cal.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cal/article/view/32564.
3. Basu, Srimati. “Hiding in Plain Sight: Disclosure, Identity and the Indian Men’s Rights Movement.” QED: A Journal of LGBTQ Worldmaking, vol. 5, no. 3, 2018, pp. 117-129. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/717245.
4. Basu, Srimati. “The Irretrievable Spoils of Marriage: Fault, Property and the Law Commission of India.” Journal of Indian Law and Society, vol. 6, 2015, pp. 22-43.
5. Basu, Srimati, and Takenaka, A. “Introduction: Feminist Politics and Activism in Reactionary Eras.” Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, vol. 1, no. 2, 2018. http://www.lectitopublishing.nl/feminist-encounters/volume-2/issue-1.
6. Basu, Srimati. “Looking through Misogyny: Indian Men's Rights Activists, Law and Challenges for Feminism.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 28, no. 1, 2016, pp. 28-51. https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cjwl.28.1.45.

Selected Book Chapters

1. Banerjee, Supurna, et al., editors. "Foreword." The Violent Domestic: Law, its Practice and Strategies of Survival. New Delhi: Zubaan, 2022. https://zubaanbooks.com/shop/the-violent-domestic-law-its-practice-and-…
2. Barrett, Rusty and Basu, Srimati. "Language and the Regulation of Marriage." Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. Edited by Kira Hall and Rusty Barrett, Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/42645
3. Basu, Srimati. "In Singular and Plural Voice: #Metoo, Law and Solidarity.” #MeToo and Beyond: Perspectives on a Global Movement. Edited by Cristina Alcalde and Paula-Irene Villa, University Press of Kentucky, July 2022. https://www.amazon.com/MeToo-Beyond-Perspectives-Global-Movement/dp/081…
4. Basu, Srimati.2021. https://www.dukeupress.edu/bombay-brokers
5. Basu, Srimati. “Gender and Law: A Retrospective.” Contributions to Indian Sociology. Edited by Sanjay Srivastava, Yasmeen Arif, and Janaki Abraham, Sage, 2019. https://www.amazon.in/Critical-Themes-Indian-Sociology-Srivastava/dp/9352807952/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
6. Basu, Srimati. “On Disloyalty.” Men and Feminism in India. Edited by Romit Chowdhury and Zaid al Basset, Routledge, 2018, pp. 144-163. https://www.routledge.com/Men-and-Feminism-in-India/Chowdhury-Baset/p/book/9781138210387
7. Basu, Srimati. “Unfair Advantage?: Polygyny and Adultery in Indian Personal Law.” Filing Religion: State, Hinduism, and Courts of Law. Edited by Daniela Berti, Gilles Tarrabout, and Raphael Voix, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 301-324. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/filing-religion-state-hinduism-and-courts-of-law-9780199463794%3Flang%3Den%26cc%3Dkr%20
8. Alcalde, Cristina, Emily Burrill, and Basu, Srimati. “Feminist Organizing Around Violence Against Women in Mali, Peru, and India.” Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought. Edited by Cristina Alcalde, Susan Bordo, and Ellen Rosenman, University of California Press, 2015. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520264229/provocations
9. Basu, Srimati. “Dreaming a Better Court for Women: Adjudication and Subjectivity in the Family Courts of Kolkata, India.” Marrying in South Asia: Shifting Concepts, Changing Practices in a Globalising World. Edited by Rajni Palriwala and Ravinder Kaur, New Delhi: Orient Black Swan, 2013. http://www.orientblackswan.com/display.asp?categoryID=9&isbn=978-81-250…
10. Basu, Srimati. "Beyond Equivalence: Body and Language in Family Courts" Sexuality Studies: Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society. Edited by Sanjay Srivastava, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/sexuality-studies-9780198085577;…;
11. Basu, Srimati. “Family Law Organizations and the Mediation of Resources and Violence in Kolkata, India.” New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities. Edited by Srila Roy, Zed Books, 2012. http://us.macmillan.com/newsouthasianfeminisms/SrilaRoy
12. Basu, Srimati. “Playing off Courts: The Negotiation of Divorce and Violence in Plural Legal Settings in Kolkata.” Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia: Notes on the Postcolonial Present. Edited by Angana Chatterji and Lubna Chaudhry, New Delhi: Zubaan 2012; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo16062575.html
13. Basu, Srimati. “Beyond Property Refusal: Indian Women’s Discourses of Inheritance.” Negotiating Spaces: Legal Domains, Gender Concerns, and Community Constructs. Edited by Flavia Agnes. New Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2012. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198076636.do#.UQ87lfJWJX8
14. Basu, Srimati. “The Legal Structures of Kinship: Re-Working Affinity, Residence and Entitlement in Urban India.” Marriage, Love and Caste: Perception of Society and History in Selected Works of Modern Indian Literature. Edited by Anindita Ghoshal, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2011. http://primusbooks.com/display.asp?k=9789380607012
15. Basu, Srimati. “Gender and Land Rights in South Asia.” Women's Rights: An ACLU Freedom File. Edited by Nancy N. Rosenblum, New York: New Press, 2002. https://www.aclu.org/issues/womens-rights
16. Basu, Srimati. "Dowry and Inheritance." SAGE International Encyclopedia of Sexuality and Gender. Edited by Amy Lind and Stephanie Brzuzy, Sage, 2020. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-sage-international-encyclopedia-of-sexuality-and-gender/book245423