Linking Traditions of Resistance

Aruna Burte

Chapter 10 in Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia, 2014, pp 155-171 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Women everywhere — individually and collectively — have spoken out against subordination, inequality, discrimination, violence, wars and injustice breaking the culture of silence. Every culture has its own distinct traditions of resistance. In this chapter, I begin with a quick recap of a ‘her story’ of resistance resulting in the nation-wide opposition to the Mathura rape case judgement, which consolidated the women’s movement of the 1980s.1 The focus on three cases — the Mathura case in the 1980s, the Bhanwari Devi case in the 1990s and the Soni Sori case in 2010 — highlights the distinct features of the women’s movement in India and the challenges it has faced.

Keywords: Domestic Violence; Sexual Harassment; Gender Equality; Religious Identity; Child Marriage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137390578_10

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