Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics beyond the Law - Softcover

Menon, Nivedita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252072111 ISBN 13: 9780252072116

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2004

Synopsis

Is the language of rights enough to foster real social and political change? Nivedita Menon explores the relationship between law and feminist politics by examining the contemporary Indian women's movement with comparisons to France and the United States. She argues that the intersection of feminist politics, law, and the state often paradoxically and severely distorts important ethical and emancipatory impulses of feminism. Menon reviews historical challenges to the liberal notion of rights from Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and critical legal scholars, and analyzes current Indian debates on topics including abortion, sexual violence, and Parliamentary quotas for women. Far from being a call to withdraw from the arena of law, Recovering Subversion instead urges feminists everywhere to recognize the limits of rights discourse and pleads for a politics that goes beyond its boundaries.

About this title

About the Author:

Nivedita Menon is Reader in the Department of Political Science at the University of Delhi. Aditya Nigam is currently a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0252072111
• ISBN 13: 9780252072116
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 271