Srimati Basu is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety, the editor of Dowry and Inheritance (Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism series), and the coeditor of Conjugality Unbound: Sexual Economy and the Marital Form in India.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Law, Marriage, and Feminist Reform 2. Construction Zones: Marriage Law in Formation 3. Beyond Equivalence: On Reading and Speaking Law 4. Justice without Lawyers? Living the Family Court Experiment 5. In Sanity and in Wealth: Diagnosing Conjugality and Kinship 6. Sexual Property: Rape and Marriage Conjoined 7. Strategizing Spaces: Negotiating the Violence out of Domestic Violence Claims 8. The Trouble Is Marriage: Conclusions and Worries Notes References Index