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FROM MATHURA
TO MANORAMA :
RESISTING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN INDIA
Kalpana Kannabiran & Ritu Menon
Rs 300 Hb 2007
81-88965-35-9
(All rights available)
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From the late 1970s to the present, feminists in India have had to deal with spiralling violence against women and the alarming ramifications of its forms, as well as assess their strategies to combat it. This monograph reviews twenty-five years of protest and action by them, in an attempt to take both our analysis and theories forward. It maps the trajectory of feminist organizing in India in the post-Emergency period, after 1977; the paths of legal reform and the points at which they have intersected with, or resulted from, feminist campaigns; the texture of campaigns and the creativity with which women’s groups have fashioned and sustained difficult struggles against violence; the persistence of feminist interventions and the ways in which different groups have been able to tilt the balance in favour of women in perceptible ways; and
the escalation of collective violence, increasingly by agents of the state, against women.
Notwithstanding the diversity of formal political affiliations and theoretical analyses within the women’s movement, the last twenty-five years have seen the evolution of a minimum consensus that categorically rejects any rationalization of violence against women, even while recognizing its complexity. |
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KALPANA KANNABIRAN
is currently Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad. She is a founder member of Asmita Resource Centre for Women, and was part of the founding faculty at NALSAR University of Law. She is co-author of De-Eroticising Assault: Essays on Modesty, Honour and Power; co-editor of The Situated Politics of Belonging and editor of The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women's Lived Realities. She was awarded the VKRV Rao Prize in Social Science Research in 2003, and the Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists in 2012. Her most recent book is Tools of Justice: Non Discrimination and the Indian Constitution (2012).RITU MENON
is co-founder of Kali for Women, India's oldest feminist press, and of Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for Women. She has written and published widely on women, and is co-author of Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition; Unequal Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women in India; and Educating Muslim Girls: A Comparison of Five Indian Cities. Her most recent book is Out of Line: a literary and political biography of Nayantara Sahgal. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2011.
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