Domestic Violence in Pakistan, The Legal Construction of Bad and Mad Women
The Legal Construction of Bad and Mad Women
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Daanika Kamal's book investigates the subjectivities of women victims within the Pakistani legal system, analyzing how these subjectivities are captured and negotiated.
Drawing on feminist poststructuralist accounts and empirical research, including case files, interviews, and court observations, the book examines gendered subject formation in discursive spaces.
It explores societal narratives that minimize women's harms, police mechanisms that maintain the secrecy of familial violence, and boilerplate lawyerly strategies that present alternative legal 'truths.
' The book sheds light on how these practices construct the victim-subject of domestic violence.
It also explores how these practices secure the victim within the field of subjectification.
Setting her up to be viewed by the judiciary through the lens of the allegations applied to her.
Daanika Kamal's book investigates the subjectivities of women victims within the Pakistani legal system, analyzing how these subjectivities are captured and negotiated.
Drawing on feminist poststructuralist accounts and empirical research, including case files, interviews, and court observations, the book examines gendered subject formation in discursive spaces.
It explores societal narratives that minimize women's harms, police mechanisms that maintain the secrecy of familial violence, and boilerplate lawyerly strategies that present alternative legal 'truths.
' The book sheds light on how these practices construct the victim-subject of domestic violence.
It also explores how these practices secure the victim within the field of subjectification.
Setting her up to be viewed by the judiciary through the lens of the allegations applied to her.
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Explores why women victims are constructed in particular ways in the Pakistani legal system.
Daanika Kamal, "Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women" (Oxford UP, 2025)
