Legally Yours is a book about Indian women’s rights. Its about Hindu women, Muslim women,Christian women’s rights, when unmarried, married,divorced or in a live-in relationship and some more. Legally Yours, though a nonfiction, excels at breaking up the tough, dry legal jargon. It provides easily digestible snippets with a conversational language, real case snapshots, and Bollywood references. The last one though had some strange stories.More about that in detail in the book.

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Name of the book

Legally Yours

Author

Manasi Chaudhuri an award winning lawyer passionate about legal awareness for women. She is an advocate and Founder Pink Legal. Its a UN recognized platform for women’s rights.

Official Book Blurb

What would you do if someone threatened to leak your private photos? Or harassed you at work? Is your live-in relationship legally valid? What are your inheritance rights as a woman? Should you sign a prenuptial agreement? Do you know how to protect yourself when your rights are violated?

Indian laws can seem confusing and intimidating. Legally Yours makes them simple and accessible.

This book is written by Manasi Chaudhari. She is an award-winning lawyer and the founder of Pink Legal, which is a UN Women-recognized platform for women’s rights. This book serves as the ultimate guide for women of any age to understand, own, and assert their rights.

Packed with real-life examples and practical advice, Legally Yours explains complicated laws in straightforward language and provides actionable legal remedies. This book covers topics such as reproductive rights, domestic abuse, workplace harassment, and marriage and divorce. It also addresses cyber safety and property disputes. You will gain the knowledge to take control of your life. Stand up for yourself with confidence! Because knowing your rights isn’t just empowering-it’s transformative.

Book Cover

A powerful black cover with the name of the book in white ,with a bright  pink highlighting some of the text sends the right message of being powerful even when dainty.

My Book Review

What’s the book about?

It’s about the legal rights of women in different situations. These include marriage, live-in relationships, cyber bullying, workplace safety, and sexual harassment. Other areas are rape, sextortion, reproductive rights, inheritance, and money matters. It covers common sense and guidance on getting help from the administration and police. There is also information on how to protect yourself. All of this is neatly packaged in a powerful book.

I enjoy reading nonfiction on many topics. This one was very close to my heart. It discusses inheritance laws in detail. It also covers making trust funds and financial rights. It explains how to protect yourself under different situations. Additionally, it talks about exploitation and harassment. Finally, it provides information on how to get help.

The topics covered are::

• sexual harassment
• cyber bullying
• identity theft
• workplace rights
• domestic violence
• marriage
• divorce
• live -in relationships
• money matters
• reproductive rights
• legal remedies.

My favourites include:

• common sense way of putting forth serious advice .
• money matters
• cyberbullying
• sextortion
• inheritance laws especially for different faiths and interfaith marriages.

Top advice from the book:

About managing money for women,this book is your perfect starting point .Later you can check out this post and this.

Topics which were dealt very sensitively:

• Live-in relationship when it comes to that with a married man.There is not just a moral problem, but also legally the women rarely get protection.
• Not every live-in relationship is treated like marriage.
• Interfaith marriage and inheritance
• Inheritance in other faiths
• Divorce
• Arrest of women

Who is this book for?

• All women
• School libraries
• High School syllabus as additional reading
• College add-on like environmental science

Do I recommend it?

Absolutely .It’s not a fun gift ,but a very helpful one. So definitely gift it on daughters day,mothers day, women’s day and anyone whom you want to help delicately .You can also send them over to this review to encourage them to give it a read.

What I wish

A helpline/website/database of lawyers according to pincode/town/cities/ for women to access help anywhere. Police stations are not always the most helpful when it comes to protecting legal rights. Right there we have a problem. But that is beyond the scope of this book. But I can send out a wish for the universe.In this age of Jamtara scams and everyday cybercrimes ,its a great book for staying aware and protecting yourself.

This is part of the Blogchatter Book Review program.

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