Gender and Neoliberalism

Armstrong, Elisabeth

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“…The pursuit of a justice-centered approach to sexual and reproductive health has been a fundamental aspect of women's movements, even when the specific term "reproductive justice" was not explicitly in use. For instance, women's groups like the All-India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) concurrently emphasized the importance of acknowledging how caste and class structures significantly shaped women's experiences concerning rights within a broader context and, notably, reproductive autonomy in India (Armstrong 2013). The importance of incorporating a reproductive justice perspective lies in the primacy accorded to marginalized communities' health and wellbeing, with the acceptance that they are most vulnerable to both state-sanctioned and gendered violence.…”

Section: Reproductive Justice and Decriminalizationmentioning

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Beyond bars, coercion and death: Rethinking abortion rights and justice in India

Jain

2024

Oñati Socio-Legal Series

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The legal framework governing abortion in India is, at its core, a cis-hetero-patriarchal framework that regulates pregnant persons' bodies using a punitive criminal justice system. The criminal framework encompasses Sections 312-318 IPC, provisions of the POCSO Act, and the PCPNDT Act, which prescribe significant state surveillance and allow for largely unchecked intimidation by law enforcement of both abortion providers and abortion seekers. Several case laws show the “chilling effect” of criminalization on healthcare providers, leading them to hesitate to provide safe abortion services. The stigma around abortions perpetuated by criminalization, leaves pregnant persons with limited reproductive choices – these include either availing of safe abortions and risking prosecution, availing of unsafe abortions and risking adverse health outcomes, or carrying unwanted pregnancies to term and avoiding prenatal and maternal healthcare. Criminalization disproportionately affects marginalized communities, with examples of legal reform showing carceral approaches' disregard for structural factors affecting certain groups' access to fundamental rights and healthcare services. It is, therefore, imperative to decriminalize abortion completely, framing avenues for redressal within a reproductive justice framework. The proposal to completely abolish penal provisions that govern forced abortions begets concerns about leaving marginalized pregnant persons who frequently experience forced abortions with no legal recourse. This feminist dilemma that ensues requires the adoption of decarceral, intersectional approaches that maintain structures of accountability for harm done, without posing any risk to the rights of marginalized pregnant persons. El marco jurídico que rige el aborto en India es fundamentalmente una estructura cis-heteropatriarcal, que utiliza un sistema de justicia penal punitivo para controlar los cuerpos de las personas embarazadas. Las secciones 312-318 del Código Penal indio, junto con la ley de Protección de los niños contra los delitos sexuales y la ley de Técnicas de diagnóstico prenatal y antes de la concepción, componen este marco penal, promoviendo una vigilancia estatal que intimida por igual a quienes practican el aborto y a quienes lo solicitan. Los casos judiciales ilustran vívidamente el perjudicial “efecto amedrentador” que tiene la penalización tanto sobre los proveedores de atención sanitaria como sobre quienes buscan abortar. El estigma vinculado a los abortos penalizados limita la autonomía de decisión reproductiva, obligando a las personas a elegir entre procedimientos seguros pero perseguibles, abortos inseguros con riesgos para la salud, o llevar a término embarazos no deseados. Esto afecta de manera desproporcionada a las comunidades marginadas, lo que pone de relieve la inadecuación de los enfoques carcelarios para abordar las barreras estructurales a la realización de los derechos reproductivos. Los activistas piden la despenalización completa, impulsando una transición hacia un marco de justicia reproductiva. La propuesta de abolir por completo las disposiciones penales que regulan los abortos forzados suscita la preocupación de dejar sin recursos legales a las personas embarazadas marginadas que suelen sufrir abortos forzados. El dilema feminista que se plantea exige la adopción de enfoques descarceladores e interseccionales que mantengan las estructuras de rendición de cuentas sin poner en peligro los derechos de las mujeres embarazadas marginadas.

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Section: Reproductive Justice and Decriminalizationmentioning

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Beyond bars, coercion and death: Rethinking abortion rights and justice in India

Jain

2024

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“…The voice of Ratni Sathvi’s echoes those of several women activists of the democratic peasant movement who experienced freedom of mobility and expression that enabled them to push the anti-patriarchal agenda further within the larger class-based organizations. In order to do this, these women also became the founding members of democratic women’s organizations that organized women across classes (Armstrong, 2013).…”

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Women’s Liberation and the Agrarian Question: Insights from Peasant Movements in India

Prasad

2021

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journ

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This article explores some questions arising from recent debates on patriarchy and capitalism. The focus is on the role of women in communist-led peasant movements in India and the implications of such struggles on the project of women’s emancipation. The first section lays out a framework for discussing the interface between class consciousness and the anti-patriarchal project, whereby patriarchy is located within the structural contradictions arising out of the contestations within the process of accumulation. The second section documents the historical context, focusing on the relationship between land reforms and social transformation in semi-feudal and early capitalist contexts, and analyzes the extent to which communist-led struggles are anti-patriarchal in character. The third section turns to the participation of women in the contemporary struggles of both agricultural workers and peasant movements and underlines the new emerging dialectics between women’s and peasant organizations under a neoliberal state and with deepening agrarian distress.

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Marxist and Socialist Feminisms

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2020

Companion to Feminist Studies

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Gender and Neoliberalism

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Beyond bars, coercion and death: Rethinking abortion rights and justice in India

Beyond bars, coercion and death: Rethinking abortion rights and justice in India

Women’s Liberation and the Agrarian Question: Insights from Peasant Movements in India

Marxist and Socialist Feminisms

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