
The Scandal of the State
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Acknowledgments xiii
1. Introduction: Women, Citizenship, Law, and the Indian State 1
I. Women in Custody
2. The Ameena "Case": The Female Citizen and Subject 41
3. Beyond the Hysterectomies Scandal: Women, the Institution, Family, and State 72
II. Women in Law
4. The Prostitution Question(s): Female Agency, Sexuality, and Work 117
5. Women Between Community and State: Some Implications of the Uniform Civil Code Debates 147
III. Killing Women
6. Children of the State?: Unwanted Girls in Rural Tamilnadu 177
7. Outlaw Woman: The Politics of Phoolan Devi's Surrender, 1983 212
Notes 237
References 279
Index 301
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