Towards Gender Justice, Research Centre for Women’s Studies

This book is the first publication of the Gender Series planned by the Research Centre for Women’s Studies. This series seeks to enhance our knowledge of women’s status, problems, and struggles in all spheres of life. The present book takes a comprehensive view of the interplay of legal and social factors which keep women away from getting the full benefits of legal justice. The idea of movement for equal justice in the eyes of the law is relatively new. In the nineteenth century the social reformists tried to emancipate women with social changes radical for the time but certainly not free from patriarchal biases shared by reformers as well as the British rulers. With this gender bias, full justice was bound to be denied to women. But things have not changed much even to-day. This is the theme of the three lectures incorporated in this book.