Why Is Marital Rape Legal in India?

This week, The Swaddle team explores the history of India's rape laws, and the reasons why marital rape is still legal in India today.

Edited by: Neha Shekhawat
Presented by: Anahita Sachdev
Research: Anamika Sudhakar
Produced by: Shrishti Malhotra
Creative Supervisor: Karla Bookman

Want to learn more about the research in this video? Check out these readings:

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-Rudolph, Julia. "Rape and Resistance: Women and consent in seventeenth-century English legal and political thought." Journal of British Studies 39, no. 2 (2000): 157-184.
-Clark, Anna. The struggle for the breeches: gender and the making of the British working class. Vol. 23. Univ of California Press, 1995.
-Kroeker, Greta, and Devon Sherwood. "Early Modern Rape Culture (s): Women’s Confrontations with Religion and Law Attending to Early Modern Women: Action and Agency 2018 Conference."
-LeGrand, Camille E. "Rape and rape laws: Sexism in society and law." Calif. L. Rev. 61 (1973): 919.

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