This book provides a textured understanding of intimate violence across the unlimited stretch of human relationships, institutions, and social structures. The volume has been conceptualized with the overarching objective to provide the reader with a collection of thoughtfully selected chapters that critically examine existing literature for an in-depth analysis of institutions through the lens of violence, beyond disciplinary and topical boundaries, from a range of methodologies. The book encourages reflections on the complexities of society, its institutions and gendered norms that enmesh violence and intimate relationships. It further examines the socio-normative contexts within which violence operates as a tool for maintaining inequalities in society. The chapters in this volume attempt to address questions such as: What are the complexities in the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim which sustain and legitimize violence? What are the diverse dimensions of violence in intimate relationships? What role does violence in intimate spaces play in preserving status quo and the pervasive gendered hierarchies within society and its institutions? Who is vulnerable to violence and why? The book covers conversations on intimate space violence and relationships that have not been explored hitherto in mainstream academic debates. The volume pivots violence fundamentally as a product of 'entitlements' based on gendered social hierarchies and critical intersectionalities to examine its manifestations in a variety of intimate situations and relationships beyond socio-cultural, religious and geographical boundaries. The book provides invaluable learnings for academics, researchers, students, lawyers, sociologists, social workers, health professionals and policymakers.

Autorentext

Pinki Mathur Anurag is Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Human Rights Studies at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. Prior to joining academics, she was Technical Director at the Lawyers Collective, India. Pinki co-edited "Conflict in the Shared Household, Domestic Violence and the Law in India" (2019, with Indira Jaising). Her research interests include gender, ageism and the law, international human rights law.

Santwana Dwivedy is Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Human Rights Studies at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. Prior to this, she was Assistant Professor at KIIT Law School, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. She was also Advocate at Supreme Court of India , Legal Consultant at the Women Safety Division in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India and has also served as Legislative Assistant to a Member of Parliament of India (LAMP Fellow). Her areas of teaching and research are human rights and criminal justice, specifically issues of gender violence and the relationship between law and gender equality.