Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee, All the Best. For the past couple of weeks on the podcast, we've been learning about India, first through a study of the Hindu religion and then through an examination of the caste system. Today we will shift to another important and fascinating topic as we highlight the book, The Trouble with Marriage, Feminists

confront law and violence in India by Dr. Srimati Basu.

And I am so happy to welcome Dr. Basu to the podcast today.

Welcome, Dr. Basu.

Hi, so good to talk to you, Amy.

So I am so happy to hear the books that have been preceding this,

because I think maybe if someone listens to them in order, it's up a certain conversation.

Yes, that's the goal, is to have kind of the foundations taken care of first, and then we have context for what we're hearing for the rest of the podcast.

So, yes, this is going to be a really exciting series on South Asia.

So maybe I'll introduce you first just with your professional bio,

and then you can introduce yourself with some more personal details.

Dr. Srimati Basu is a professor of gender and women's studies in anthropology at the University of Kentucky.

She is the president of the Association for Feminist

Anthropology from 2021 through 2023, and she has an interdisciplinary PhD from Ohio State

University in Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and Women's Studies. And her teaching,

research, and community work interests include global feminisms, law,

gender-based violence, social movements, feminist methodologies, and masculinities.

She has written extensively on these subjects, and she is the author of the book we'll be discussing

today, which I mentioned before, The Trouble with Marriage, Feminists confront law and

violence in India.

Dr. Basu has also participated as subject expert in the UN expert group meeting on family

policy development, achievements and challenges.

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