Srimati Basu

Srimati Basu is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (and Anthropology). She has an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Ohio State University in Cultural Studies/ Anthropology/ Women's Studies, and her teaching, research and community work interests include Legal Anthropology, Women in Development, Feminist Jurisprudence, South Asia, Feminist Theory and Methodology, Work, Property and Violence Against Women. Her principal present project, Managing Marriage: Family Law and Family Violence in India, engages with debates about lawyer-free courts, domestic violence and forum-shopping, rape discourse in the context of marriage, reformulating kinship in the postcolonial State, mediation in the context of violence, and transnational engagements with family law reform.

Her research on Indian women and inheritance laws has been published in She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property and Propriety (SUNY Press, 1999), and she is also the editor of the Dowry and Inheritance volume in the in the Kali for Women series Issues in Indian Feminism.  Some other pieces on property, law, popular culture and resistance appear in the anthologies Signposts: Gender in Post-Independence India ( Kali for Women, 1999), Religion and Personal Law in India (Indiana U Press, 2001), Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Postcolonial India (Anthem Press, 2002), and Gender At Work In Economic Life (University Press of America, 2001), and in the journals Feminist Media Studies, , Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Cultural Dynamics and Journal of Legal Pluralism. 

Contact Dr. Basu at: Srimati.Basu@uky.edu