Subject(s): Women in Legal status, laws, etc. in India. -- Feminist jurisprudence in India. -- Feminist legal revisions- women, law and social change : Women, law and social change, revisioning feminist legal histories- from social reform to contemporary women's movement -- Women, legal regulation and familial ideology : Family, sexuaql division of labor and familial ideology, moral regulation of women in through the family, women, familial ideology and economic regulation -- Constitutional challenges and contesting discourses- equality and family : Equality- formal, substantive and relevance of gender, sex discrimination and legal regulation of family, employment, civil and political rights -- Women, Hindu rights and legal discourse : Hindu right, Hinutva and discourse of equality, women's rights agenda within the Hindu right, gendered discourses of Hindutva -- Feminist legal revisions- strategies for engaging with law : Right debates - can rights discourse advance the political agendas of social movements, litigation, law reform, legal literacy -- women empowerment