Recovering subversion : feminist politics beyond the law /
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| Author / Creator: | Menon, Nivedita. |
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| Imprint: | Urbana, Ill. : Permanent Black/University of Illinois Press, c2004. |
| Description: | xii, 271 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5608983 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Constitutionalism and the Feminist Subject
- Feminist Critiques of Law as Strategy
- The Public-Private Dichotomy
- The Body and Law
- 1. Rights: Putting History Back In
- The Emergence of Rights
- Critiques of Rights
- Morality as the Basis of Rights
- Legal Discourse and the Fixing of Meaning
- The Sameness-versus-Difference Debate in Feminist Legal Theory
- 2. Abortion: When Pro-Choice is Anti-Women
- The Abortion Question in Feminist Politics
- Abortion and the Indian Women's Movement
- The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act
- The Campaign against Sex Determination Tests: Political Contradictions
- The Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act (1994)
- The Right to Abortion in India's Legal Discourse: Reproductive Autonomy Versus Population Control
- Abortion, Femicide of Foetuses and Feminist Ethics
- 3. Sexual Violence: Escaping the Body
- Rape/Sexual Assault: Defining Rape: The Legal Discourse
- Defining Rape: Feminist Discourse
- Law as the Primary Legitimating Discourse
- Sexual Violence and the Binary Logic of Law
- Consent and the Age Factor
- The Reinstatement of Dominant Norms through Discourse on Rape
- Rape and Rights-Talk
- The Draft Sexual Assault Law Reforms (India) 2000
- Deconstructing 'Sexuality'
- Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
- Conclusion
- 4. Reservations for Women: 'Am I That Name'?
- Historical Background: Gender and Caste since the 1980s
- Is the WRB Only About 'Women'?
- Feminism and Citizenship
- The Movement for Parity in France
- Representation: The Identity-or-Ideology Dichotomy
- Conclusion
- 5. Recovering Subversion
- Law and Justice
- Democracy and Radical Politics
- Civil Society versus Political Society
- The Institutionalisation of Feminism
- Human Rights and International Norms
- Breaking through Universalism and Particularity
- If There is No 'Woman' Then Who is the Subject of Feminist Politics?
- Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
- Bibliography
- Index