Motherhood, and its “lack:” Personal loss, and political community among Shiv Sena women in Mumbai

Bedi, Tarini

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2012.10.007

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“…The consequence of this is running the risk of depicting conservative women as cultural dupes or mere pawns in a male dominated political game (Bacchetta & Power, 2002;Bedi, 2006;Power, 2004, pp.138-139).…”

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Trying to be a vulnerable observer: Matters of agency, solidarity and hospitality in feminist ethnography

Davids

2014

Women's Studies International Forum

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Trying to be a vulnerable observer: Matters of agency, solidarity and hospitality in feminist ethnography

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2014

Women's Studies International Forum

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“…Sen (2019: 745) calls such assertions 'urbanoid enactments' 6 . Shiv Sena women have been documented to be involved in the post-Babri Mosque (1992) demolition riots in Bombay (Bedi, 2006;Sen, 2007). Sen (2006) has shown how Shiv Sena women (and here I also take into account other Hindutva women) carry out the ideological agenda and bring their own 'feminised' forms of violence to the fore: they are active in public spaces; in the same fight as men, they perform the role of 'mythmaking', 'rumour-mongering' and 'image building' (Sen, 2006: 28).…”

Section: Hindu Nationalist Women and Violencementioning

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‘You Call Us Goons! Have You Seen How <i>Their</i> Women Act?’: Gendering as a Protest Strategy among Hindu Nationalist Students in New Delhi

Tyagi

2023

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics

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Founded in 1949, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is the largest political student organisation in the world. ABVP fights university elections, helps students navigate university bureaucracy, and conducts extra-curricular activities for students. It is one of the strongest arms of the largest and most influential coalition of Hindu nationalist organisations called the Sangh Family (<i>Sangh Parivar</i>) in promoting Hindu nationalist ideology to an extremely influential demographic: the young, university-educated, and urban populace. As a member of the largest Hindu nationalist organisation in the world, what does it mean to protest in the present political moment – with the knowledge that there is state and institutional support on your side? Ethnographic data and interviews show that gender plays a key role in how protests are organised and performed. In this article, the sites of the ABVP protest are deconstructed to illustrate two objectives: first, to lay out the preparations that go into ‘doing’ protest. Second, the strategies, micro-politics and navigations that show how protests are gendered. Gendering emerges as a strategy of assertion against women of the left and progressive groups.

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“…This also did not change their domestic roles in the private sphere, for which they were taught to be ideal wives and mothers, who are always ready to make sacrifices for their family. Hence, the ideology is a ‘form of surrender to patriarchy’ (Bedi, 2006), where women are brought into the public sphere to be made fit for their private roles as Hindu women. The support for the BJP among women, however, could be understood in terms of how this brief escape from the domestic clutches provided them with a sense of agency and autonomy, even if in restricted terms, in the public space for the first time, but this activism was, as Hasan (2010) remarks, not to further women’s interests but in service of Hindutva .…”

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The Hindutva Brand of Populist Politics and the Women Question

Singh

Parihar

2023

Political Studies Review

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This study maps the interactions of the Hindutva brand of political populism, which is in rise in India, with the feminist politics and concerns. To study this interaction, the article qualitatively studies the phenomenon of Hindutva-populism and feminist politics and uses the Bhartiya Janata Party, the Hindu-rightist political party, as the site to explore the gendered political culture and the complex relationship that populism and feminism share on the women question in their quest for political and social transformation in India. For this purpose, the article focuses on the broad themes, highlighting the differential visions of both projects, of: the lens through which the problems are diagnosed, the solutions proposed to these problems and the role of the related variables such as power, state and leadership, which puts them in a fundamental clash with each other.

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Motherhood, and its “lack:” Personal loss, and political community among Shiv Sena women in Mumbai

Cited by 3 publications

References 40 publications

Trying to be a vulnerable observer: Matters of agency, solidarity and hospitality in feminist ethnography

Trying to be a vulnerable observer: Matters of agency, solidarity and hospitality in feminist ethnography

‘You Call Us Goons! Have You Seen How <i>Their</i> Women Act?’: Gendering as a Protest Strategy among Hindu Nationalist Students in New Delhi

The Hindutva Brand of Populist Politics and the Women Question

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