This article focuses on Indian women's experiences of filing complaints of gendered violence in order to address two interconnected questions: how are complaints of gendered and sexual violence authenticated as genuine or rejected as dubious before they even reach a courtroom? And how do women who bring these complaints before the law navigate a social field in which what counts as the ‘truth’ might conflict with their own understandings and experiences? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in India, this article explores how family, community, and local state officials engaged in a kind of thick description that contextualized women's complaints within rural social relations and political economy. It shows how this politics of thickening often displaced women's individual experiences of violence and served to falsify their complaints. This everyday thickening bears a troubling similarity to the theory and methods of feminist activists and anthropologists, necessitating reflection on how to write ethically about gendered violence without replicating violence. Finally, this article turns attention to how some women decided to take on this politics of thickening through canny adoption of its methods and premises, eventually stretching the limits of the law and unintentionally expanding its scope.

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“所有案件都是假的”：法律、性别暴力以及印度喜马拉雅地区日益加剧的政治


本文重点介绍印度妇女提出性别暴力投诉的经历，以解决两个相互关联的问题：性别暴力和性暴力投诉在进入法庭之前如何被验证为真实或因可疑而被拒绝？在所谓的“真相”可能与她们自己的理解和经历相冲突的社会领域中，向法律提出这些投诉的女性该如何应对？本文借鉴印度喜马拉雅山中部北阿坎德邦的民族志实地调查，探讨了家庭、社区和地方国家官员如何进行一种厚重的描述，将妇女的抱怨置于农村社会关系和政治经济的背景下。它显示了这种日益浓厚的政治如何常常取代妇女的个人暴力经历，并伪造她们的申诉。这种日常的增厚与女权主义活动家和人类学家的理论和方法有着令人不安的相似之处，因此有必要反思如何在不复制暴力的情况下道德地书写性别暴力。最后，本文将注意力转向一些女性如何通过精明地采用其方法和前提来决定接受这种增厚政治，最终突破了法律的限制并无意中扩大了其范围。