Acknowledgements; Introduction Tanja Herklotz and Siddharth Peter de Souza; Part I. Systems of Inequality: 1. Family matters, gender matters: courts on the rule against restraints on alienation Krithika Ashok; 2. Missing women in the Indian judiciary: the inadequacies of the judicial appointment process Siddharth Peter de Souza and Medha Srivastava-Kehrer; 3. Is the Supreme Court cherry-picking its gender battles? Jayna Kothari; 4. Juxtaposing equality?: Muslim women's rights in the normative realm of secularism and personal law in India Katharina Wommelsdorff; 5. Is sexuality anti-Indian?: Reflections on obscenity in contemporary Indian popular discourse Fritzi-Marie Titzmann; Part II. Battles for Equality: 6.

Armed with the Constitution: feminist litigation on Indian family law Tanja Herklotz; 7. Nikah Halala: The petition, the promise and the politics of personal law Saumya Saxena; 8. The politics of erotic labour: a case study of Mumbai bar dancers Sameena Dalwai; 9. Reactionary executive versus deliberative legislature: the case of how the legislature championed compensation for reproductive labour while regulating surrogacy Mandira Kala; 10. Interrogating the freedoms of queer liberation in India Jason Keith Fernandes; Part III. Realising Equality: 11. The politics of regulating adult sexuality through the institution of marriage: reflections on queer experiences from India Sourav Mandal; 12. Conditions of possibility: law, patriarchy and single motherhood in India Saptarshi Mandal; 13.

Turning to the state: between processing disputes and protecting autonomy Kalindi Kokal; 14. Towards an egalitarian workplace: developments in anti-sexual harassment law Poornima Hatti and Aparna Ravi; About the contributors; Index.