Srimati Basu is Chair of the Gender and Women’s Studies department and Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of the monograph, The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India. She has previously written She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property and Propriety; edited Dowry & Inheritance in the series, Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism; and is a contributing blogger to Ms. magazine.
