Debating Women S Citizenship In India

Author : Annie Devenish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789389812343

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Debating Women's Citizenship in India, 1930–1960 by Annie Devenish Pdf

Debating Women's Citizenship, 1930-1960 is about the agency of Indian feminists and nationalists whose careers straddle the transition of colonial India to an independent India. It addresses some of the critical aspects of the encounter, engagement and dialogue between the Indian state and its women citizens, in particular, how this generation conceptualised the relationship between citizenship, equality and gender justice, and the various spheres in which the meaning and application of this citizenship was both broadened and narrowed, renegotiated and pursued. The book focuses on a cohort of nationalists and feminists who were leading members of the All India Women's Conference (AIWC) and the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW). Drawing on the richness and depth of life histories through autobiography and oral interviews, together with archival research, this book excavates the mental products of these women's lives, their ideas, their writings and their discourse, to develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the feminist political personas of this generation, and how these personas negotiated the political and social terrains of their time. The book attempts to produce a new picture of this era, one in which there was far more activity and engagement with the state and with civil society on the part of this generation than previously acknowledged.

Author : Annie Devenish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 9389714303

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Debating Women's Citizenship in India by Annie Devenish Pdf

Présentation de l'éditeur : "Debating Women's Citizenship, 1930-1960' is about the agency of Indian feminists and nationalists whose careers straddle the transition of colonial India to an independent India. It addresses some of the critical aspects of the encounter, engagement and dialogue between the Indian state and its women citizens, in particular, how this generation conceptualised the relationship between citizenship, equality and gender justice, and the various spheres in which the meaning and application of this citizenship was both broadened and narrowed, renegotiated and pursued. The book focuses on a cohort of nationalists and feminists who were leading members of the All India Women's Conference (AIWC) and the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW). 0Drawing on the richness and depth of life histories through autobiography and oral interviews, together with archival research, this book excavates the mental products of these women's lives, their ideas, their writings and their discourse, to develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the feminist political personas of this generation, and how these personas negotiated the political and social terrains of their time. The book attempts to produce a new picture of this era, one in which there was far more activity and engagement with the state and with civil society on the part of this generation than previously acknowledged"

Author : Anupama Roy
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8125027971

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Gendered Citizenship by Anupama Roy Pdf

Adopting a historical conceptual approach, this book examines the gendering of citizenship. It argues that through successive historical periods, `becoming a citizen has involved a gradual extension of the status, to more and more persons and groups, in particular, women, which resulted in a more inclusive and egalitarian structure. But, the promise of equal membership in the politcal community masks the exclusionary framework that defines citizenship as found in caste hierarchies, gender differences, and divides between religious communities based on majority and minority status. Engaging with contemporary debates on citizenship that place themselves within the framework of multiculturalism and world citizenship this work asserts the need to redefine the notion of community by focussing on citizenship as a measure of activity and practice, and by exposing the subtleties of role definition of women implicit in community norms.

Author : Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 0822330482

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The Scandal of the State by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Pdf

Women in custody -- Women in law -- Killing women.

Author : Natasha Behl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190949440

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Gendered Citizenship by Natasha Behl Pdf

It has been shown time and again that even though all citizens may be accorded equal standing in the constitution of a liberal democracy, such a legal provision hardly guarantees state protections against discrimination and political exclusion. More specifically, why do we find pervasive gender-based discrimination, exclusion, and violence in India when the Indian Constitution supports an inclusive democracy committed to gender and caste equality? In Gendered Citizenship, Natasha Behl offers an examination of Indian citizenship that weaves together an analysis of sexual violence law with an in-depth ethnography of the Sikh community to explore the contradictory nature of Indian democracy--which gravely affects its institutions and puts its citizens at risk. Through a situated analysis of citizenship, Behl upends longstanding academic assumptions about democracy, citizenship, religion, and gender. This analysis reveals that religious spaces and practices can be sites for renegotiating democratic participation, but also uncovers how some women engage in religious community in unexpected ways to link gender equality and religious freedom as shared goals. Gendered Citizenship is a groundbreaking inquiry that explains why the promise of democratic equality remains unrealized, and identifies potential spaces and practices that can create more egalitarian relations.

Author : Niraja Gopal Jayal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674070998

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Citizenship and Its Discontents by Niraja Gopal Jayal Pdf

Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern India, Jayal shows how the progressive civic ideals embodied in the constitution have been challenged by exclusions based on social and economic inequality, and sometimes also, paradoxically, undermined by its own policies of inclusion. Citizenship and Its Discontents explores a century of contestations over citizenship from the colonial period to the present, analyzing evolving conceptions of citizenship as legal status, as rights, and as identity. The early optimism that a new India could be fashioned out of an unequal and diverse society led to a formally inclusive legal membership, an impulse to social and economic rights, and group-differentiated citizenship. Today, these policies to create a civic community of equals are losing support in a climate of social intolerance and weak solidarity. Once seen by Western political scientists as an anomaly, India today is a site where every major theoretical debate about citizenship is being enacted in practice, and one that no global discussion of the subject can afford to ignore.

Author : Ruth Rubio-Marin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781316827581

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Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women's Citizenship by Ruth Rubio-Marin Pdf

Constitutions around the world have overwhelmingly been the creation of men, but this book asks how far constitutions have affirmed the equal citizenship status of women or failed to do so. Using a wealth of examples from around the world, Ruth Rubio-Marín considers constitutionalism from its inception to the present day and places current debates in their vital historical context. Rubio-Marín adopts an inclusive concept of gender and sexuality, and discusses the constitutional gender order as it has been shaped by debates such those around same-sex marriage and the rights of trans persons. Covering a wide range of themes, from reproductive rights to political gender quotas and violence against women, this book offers a comprehensive feminist account of constitutional law. Truly international in scope and ambitious in subject matter, this is an invaluable resource for students and scholars working on gender within multiple disciplines.

Author : Karen Offen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107188044

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Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920 by Karen Offen Pdf

A magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the heated debates around the 'woman question' during the French Third Republic.

Author : Anupama Roy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199088201

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Mapping Citizenship in India by Anupama Roy Pdf

Contributing to the ongoing debates on citizenship, this book traces the Citizenship Act of India, 1955 from its inception, through the various amendments in 1986, 2003, and 2005. It includes detailed studies of other significant laws and judgments including the Abducted Persons (Recovery and Rehabilitation) Act (1949), and the Illegal Migrants Determination by Tribunals Act (1983) to show how citizenship unfolded among differentially located individuals, communities, and groups. The book argues that the citizenship laws in India show a steady movement towards the affirmation of citizenship's relationship with blood-ties and descent. The volume identifies amendments in the Citizenship Act as transitions which are framed by major historical choices and decisions. It examines the liminal categories of citizenship produced in the period between the commencement of the Constitution and the enactment of the Citizenship Act, which continue to make citizenship fraught with uncertainties and exclusions. Through a discussion of laws and judgments, the work also brings out the relationship between citizenship and migration in independent India, in particular in the wake of migration from Bangladesh and distress migration because of the breakdown of rural economies.

Author : Bijayalaxmi Nanda,Nupur Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429827143

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Discourse on Rights in India by Bijayalaxmi Nanda,Nupur Ray Pdf

This book is a compelling examination of the theoretical discourse on rights and its relationship with ideas, institutions and practices in the Indian context. By engaging with the crucial categories of class, caste, gender, region and religion, it draws attention to the contradictions and contestations in the arena of rights and entitlements. The essays by eminent experts provide deep and nuanced insights on the intersecting issues and concerns of individual and group identities as well as their connection with the State along with its multifarious institutions and practices. The volume not only engages with the dilemmas emerging out of the rights discourse, but also sets out to recognize the significance of a shared commitment to a rights-based framework towards the promotion of justice and democracy in society. The book will be useful to academics, social scientists, researchers and policymakers. It will be of special interest to teachers and students in the fields of politics, development studies, philosophy, ethics, sociology, gender/women’s studies and social movements.

Author : Shilpa Phadke,Sameera Khan,Shilpa Ranade
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9780143415954

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Why Loiter? by Shilpa Phadke,Sameera Khan,Shilpa Ranade Pdf

Presenting an original take on women’s safety in the cities of twenty-first century India, Why Loiter? maps the exclusions and negotiations that women from different classes and communities encounter in the nation’s urban public spaces. Basing this book on more than three years of research in Mumbai, Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade argue that though women’s access to urban public space has increased, they still do not have an equal claim to public space in the city. And they raise the question: can women’s access to public space be viewed in isolation from that of other marginal groups? Going beyond the problem of the real and implied risks associated with women’s presence in public, they draw from feminist theory to argue that only by celebrating loitering—a radical act for most Indian women—can a truly equal, global city be created.

Author : Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay,Navsharan Singh
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1552503399

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Gender Justice, Citizenship and Development by Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay,Navsharan Singh Pdf

Although there have been notable gains for women globally in the last few decades, gender inequality and gender-based inequities continue to impinge upon girls' and women's ability to realize their rights and their full potential as citizens and equal partners in decision-making and development. In fact, for every right that has been established, there are millions of women who do not enjoy it. In this book, studies from Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are prefaced by an introductory chapter that links current thinking on.

Author : Dorothy Chunn,Robert Menzies,Robert Adamoski
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015052300038

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Contesting Canadian Citizenship by Dorothy Chunn,Robert Menzies,Robert Adamoski Pdf

Over the past 15 years, the citizenship debate in political and social theory has undergone an extraordinary renaissance. To date, much of the writing on citizenship, within and beyond Canada, has been oriented toward the development of theory, or has concentrated on contemporary issues and examples. This collection of essays adopts a different approach by contextualizing and historicizing the citizenship debate, through studies of various aspects of the rise of social citizenship in Canada. Focusing on the formative years from the late 19th through mid-20th century, contributors examine how emerging discourse and practices in diverse areas of Canadian social life created a widely engaged, but often deeply contested, vision of the new Canadian citizen. The original essays examine key developments in the fields of welfare, justice, health, childhood, family, immigration, education, labour, media, popular culture and recreation, highlighting the contradictory nature of Canadian citizenship. The implications of these projects for the daily lives of Canadians, their identities, and the forms of resistance that they mounted, are central themes. Contributing authors situate their historical accounts in both public and private domains, their analyses emphasizing the mutual permeability of state and civil(ian) life. These diverse investigations reveal that while Canadian citizenship conveys crucial images of identity, security, and participatory democracy within the ongoing project of nation building, it is also interlaced with the projects of a hierarchical social structure and exclusionary political order. This collection explores the origins and evolution of Canadian citizenship in historical context. It also introduces the more general dilemmas and debates in social history and political theory that inevitably inform these inquiries.

Author : Olympe de Gouges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Women's rights
ISBN : UVA:X001813759

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The Rights of Woman by Olympe de Gouges Pdf

Author : Ian Christopher Fletcher,Philippa Levine,Laura E. Nym Mayhall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135639990

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Women's Suffrage in the British Empire by Ian Christopher Fletcher,Philippa Levine,Laura E. Nym Mayhall Pdf

This edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage from an international perspective. Leading international scholars explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of social and political struggle, and examine the ideological and cultural implications of gendered constructions of 'race', nation and empire. The book includes comprehensive case-studies of Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Palestine.