Doing and undoing feminism

Sircar, Oishik

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“…A visão do IFJP de ser reflexivo e questionar, em vez de assumir tanto o privilégio quanto a marginalidade, torna imperativo que os dilemas e desafios dos homens que praticam o feminismo sejam teorizados. Houve esforços no contexto indiano, mas foram mais na forma de conversas iniciais do que de teorizações fundamentadas (CHOWDHURY; BASET, 2015;SIRCAR, 2015;CHATTERJEE, 2016). A problematização de Stephen Heath sobre esse desejo de (alguns) homens de serem sujeitos do feminismo/ou de serem feministas, apesar de serem agentes/representantes/portadores do poder patriarcal, pode ser um elemento relevante para iniciar essas reflexões (Heth, 2001).…”

Section: Reescrevendo a Reescrita Feministaunclassified

Reescrevendo a decisão do caso Charu Khurana and Others v. Union of India and Others para o Projeto Indiano de Julgamentos Feministas: Algumas Reflexões

Chaudhary

2023

Rev. Direito Práx.

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Resumo Este artigo é semiempírico, escrito a partir do ponto de vista de alguém que faz uma crítica como alguém que atua e não atua na área ao mesmo tempo (insider/outsider), já que a autora não tem formação em Direito, mas pode ser considerada alguém da área por sua pesquisa nas interseções do Direito e do feminismo e sua experiência de ensino como professora de Ciência Política em uma faculdade de Direito por sete anos. Essa especificidade, ou melhor, essa ambiguidade de sua localização a auxilia a, em um ato de apropriação e subversão, no âmbito dos Projetos de Julgamentos Feministas de diferentes partes do mundo, desfazer a pretensão que tem o Direito/a magistratura de exclusividade do ato de julgar. O principal objetivo deste artigo é confrontar os desafios metodológicos e epistemológicos que tem diante de si uma reescritora feminista de decisões judiciais em um contexto neo/pós-colonial como a Índia contemporânea. A autora chama a atenção para a falta de perspectivas interdisciplinares no currículo e na pedagogia dos cursos de Direito na Índia e argumenta que imaginar uma nova justiça mediante o uso de estruturas interpretativas radicais exige imaginar um novo sistema de formação das pessoas que estudam o Direito e se inserem na prática jurídica em diferentes funções e desempenhando diferentes papéis. O artigo também identifica o privilégio e a hierarquia judiciais nas práticas cotidianas e nas tecnicalidades do Direito nas quais insiste o Judiciário; na complexidade da linguagem jurídica e dos gestos discursivos; e na materialidade da autoridade judicial inerente às práticas, símbolos e monumentos espaciais.

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Section: Reescrevendo a Reescrita Feministaunclassified

Reescrevendo a decisão do caso Charu Khurana and Others v. Union of India and Others para o Projeto Indiano de Julgamentos Feministas: Algumas Reflexões

Chaudhary

2023

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“…IFJP's vision to be reflexive and question rather than assume both privilege and marginality makes it imperative that the dilemmas and challenges of men doing feminism be theorised. There have been efforts in the Indian context but these have been more in the form of initial conversations than sustained theorisations (CHOWDHURY, BASET, 2015;SIRCAR, 2015;CHATTERJEE, 2016). Stephen Heath's problematisation of this desire in (some) men to be a subject of feminism/or be a feminist despite being agents/representatives/carriers of the patriarchal power might be a relevant point to start these conversations with (HEATH, 2001).…”

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Rewriting Charu Khurana and Others v. Union of India and Others for the Indian Feminist Judgments Project: Some Reflections

Chaudhary

2023

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This article is semi-experiential, written from the vantage point of a critical insider/outsider as the author has no formal degree in Law but her research at the intersections of law and feminism and her teaching experience as a Political Science faculty in a law school, for seven years, mark her as an insider. This specificity or rather ambiguity of her location aids in an act of appropriation and subversion in keeping with the vision of the Feminist Judgments Projects from different parts of the world, to rupture the Law’s/judges’ claim to exclusivity of judging. The key objective of the article is to engage with methodological and epistemological challenges that a feminist rewriter of a judgment has to face in a neo/post-colonial context like contemporary India. The author draws attention to the lack of interdisciplinary perspectives in legal education curriculum and pedagogy in India and argues that reimagining of justice by supplying radical interpretive frameworks requires re-imagination of the system that educates students of law who then enter legal practice in various capacities and roles. The article also locates judicial privilege and hierarchy in everyday practices and technicalities of law insisted upon in courts; exhibited in complexity of legal language and discursive gestures; and the materiality of judicial authority inherent in spatial practices, symbols and monuments.

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“…Access to education and technology and therefore social media is negotiated by economic class, and the presence of women online is often viewed as a threat to misogynistic notions of masculinity (Halder and Jaishankar, 2016). Studies on the #MeTooIndia movement (Pain, 2021) have shown that while burgeoning Internet availability has certainly encouraged more women to participate online, underprivileged women are often not part of such movements and must negotiate their voice with economically stronger classes (Sircar, 2018). For example, the #PinjraTod (Break the Cage), a collective of women students and alumni of colleges from across the country, was criticized for being an elitist movement that failed to consider the experiences of women from marginalized communities (LiveWire Staff, 2019).…”

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“Will the law not protect survivors who don’t weep”: Twitter as a platform of feminist deliberation and democracy in India

Pain

2022

New Media & Society

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An analysis of 40,000 tweets that trended after the Tarun Tejpal acquittal in India showed that the nature of the debate around issues of molestation and rape exhibited attributes of deliberation and demonstrated that Twitter in India, in certain cases, has strong potential to emerge as a space for deliberative feminist activism. Discussions gave impetus to advocacy around sexual molestation. While the word “victim” was used in more instances rather than the human rights–based term “survivor,” Twitter debates were supportive toward survivors of assault. There was minimum trolling and patriarchy was called out as was a legal system that sided with the influential man of power. Although city-bred English-speaking voices dominated, conversations were intersectional in nature acknowledging how the horror of physical assault was perceived by different women belonging to disparate socio-economic strata and how legal systems exacerbated gender related crimes.

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Doing and undoing feminism

Cited by 5 publications

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Reescrevendo a decisão do caso Charu Khurana and Others v. Union of India and Others para o Projeto Indiano de Julgamentos Feministas: Algumas Reflexões

Reescrevendo a decisão do caso Charu Khurana and Others v. Union of India and Others para o Projeto Indiano de Julgamentos Feministas: Algumas Reflexões

Rewriting Charu Khurana and Others v. Union of India and Others for the Indian Feminist Judgments Project: Some Reflections

“Will the law not protect survivors who don’t weep”: Twitter as a platform of feminist deliberation and democracy in India

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