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Recovering Subversion: FEMINIST POLITICS BEYOND THE LAW
University of Illinois Press, 2004 Paper: 978-0-252-07211-6 | Cloth: 978-0-252-02969-1 Library of Congress Classification KNS516.M46 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 346.540134
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: Feminist jurisprudence | LAW | Legal status, laws, etc | Menon, Nivedita | Social Policy See other titles from University of Illinois Press |
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Recovering Subversion: FEMINIST POLITICS BEYOND THE LAW
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
University of Illinois Press, 2004
Paper: 978-0-252-07211-6
Cloth: 978-0-252-02969-1
Paper: 978-0-252-07211-6
Cloth: 978-0-252-02969-1
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.
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 BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
