Recovering subversion : feminist politics beyond the law
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Recovering subversion : feminist politics beyond the law
Permanent Black/University of Illinois Press, c2004
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Bibliography: p. [246]-263
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cl. ISBN 9780252029691
Description
A feminist analysis of Indian issues that goes past rights to get to justice
Table of Contents
- Analysis of Claude Bernard's Introduction to the study of experimental medicine1924
- Two unpublished chapters from She came to stay 1935-37
- Pyrrhus and Cineas 1944
- A review of Phenomenology of Perception by Merleau-Ponty 1945
- Moral idealisme and political realism 1945
- Existentialism and popular wisdom 1945
- Jean-Paul Sartre 1945
- An eye for an eye 1946
- Literature and metaphysics 1946
- Introduction to an ethics of ambiguity 1946
- An existentialist looks at Americans 1947
- What is existentialism? 1947
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: pbk. ISBN 9780252072116
Description
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.
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