THE MOUSTACHE, THE GAMCHCHA & THE SUPERMAN COSTUME: Strategic Embodiment & Rights Claims in the Indian Men’s Rights Movement
Srimati Basu is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of the monographs The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India (University of California Press, 2015) and She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property and Propriety (SUNY Press, 1999), editor of Dowry and Inheritance (Women Unlimited, 2005), and co-editor (with Lucinda Ramberg) of Conjugality Unbound: Sexual Economy and the Marital Form in India (Women Unlimited, 2014). Some recent articles on law, marriage, and violence appear in Sexuality Studies: Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society (2013), New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities (2012), Canadian Journal of Women and Law (2016), Economic and Political Weekly (2016), 50th Anniversary Commemorative Volume of Contributions to Indian Sociology (2018) and Men and Feminism in India (2018). In 2013-14 she was a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellow conducting fieldwork on anti-feminist men’s rights groups, marriage, law and violence in India.