TY  - GEN
AU  - Menon, Nivedita
TI  - Recovering subversion : feminist politics beyond the law
SN  - 9788178242101
U1  - 305.42 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Permanent black publishing
KW  -  
N1  - Contents
Preface 
Acknowledgements 
List  of Abbreviations
Introduction 1
Constitutionalism and the Feminist Subject 
Feminist Critiques of Law as Strategy  
The Public-Private Dichotomy
The  Body and Law
1 Rights: Putting History Back In 26
The Emergence of Rights 
Critiques of Rights 
Morality as the Basis of Rights  
Legal Discourse and the Fixing of Meaning  
The Sameness- versus-Difference  Debate  in Feminist Legal Theory
2 Abortion: When Pro-Choice is Anti-Women 66
The Abortion Question in Feminist Politics 
Abortion and  the Indian Women's Movement  
The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 
The Campaign against Sex Determination Tests: Political Contradictions The Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act (1994)  
The Right to Abortion in India's Legal Discourse: Reproductive
Autonomy  Versus Population  Control 
Abortion, Femicide of Foetuses and Feminist Ethics
 3 Sexual Violence: Escaping the Body 106
Rape/Sexual Assault: Defining Rape: The Legal Discourse! Defining Rape: Feminist Discourse
Law as the Primary
Legitimating Discourse 
Sexual Violence and the Binary Logic of Law Consent and the Age Factor
The Reinstatement of Dominant Norms through Discourse on Rape
Rape and Rights- Talk  
The Draft Sexual Assault Law Reforms (India) 2000
Deconstructing 'Sexuality' 
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Conclusion
4 Reservations for Women: 'Am I That Name'? 166
Historical Background: Gender and Caste since the 1980s 
Is the WRB Only About  'Women'? 
Feminism and Citizenship 
The Movement for Parity in France
Representation : The Identity-or-Ideology Dichotomy 
Conclusion
5 Recovering Subversion 204
Law and Justice  Democracy and Radical Politics 
Civil Society versus Political Society 
The Institutionalisation  of Feminism
Human Rights and international Norms  
Breaking through Universalism and Particularity
If There  is No 'Woman' Then Who is the Subject of Feminist Politics? 
Towards a  Radical Democratic Politics
Bibliography 246
Index 265
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