Feminism’s estrangement: critical reflections on feminist engagements with law in India

Kapur, Ratna (2015) Feminism’s estrangement: critical reflections on feminist engagements with law in India. In: Feminisms of Discontent: Global Contestations. Oxford University Press, pp. 22-43. ISBN 9780199085521

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Abstract

The Slutwalk campaigns around the world have triggered a furious debate on whether it advances or limits feminist legal politics. This article examines the position of Slutwalk in the context of feminist legal advocacy in India and discusses whether its emergence signifies the demise of feminism or its incarnation in a different guise. The author argues that Slutwalk provides an important normative and discursive challenge to a specific strand of feminism based on male domination and female subordination in the area of sexuality. It serves as a space clearing gesture, a form of feminism lite, rather than offering a transformative or revolutionary politics, and thus enables the possibility of feminist theoretical positions that have hitherto been marginalized or ignored in feminist legal advocacy to emerge.

Item Type: Book Section
Keywords: Slutwalk | dominance feminism | feminist critique | postcolonial India | feminist legal advocacy | feminism lite
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Gender Studies
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Law and Legal Studies
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Law School
Depositing User: Arjun Dinesh
Date Deposited: 11 May 2022 11:34
Last Modified: 11 May 2022 11:34
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199452941.0...
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/2991

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