Feminist Legal Activism in India
This open access book examines the work of feminists engaging with legislative lobbying and strategic litigation in their fight for equality and self-determination. Across the world, feminists engage in legal activism. This book showcases the ways in which feminists in India have been particularly s...
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| description | This open access book examines the work of feminists engaging with legislative lobbying and strategic litigation in their fight for equality and self-determination. Across the world, feminists engage in legal activism. This book showcases the ways in which feminists in India have been particularly successful in their legal interventions such as legislative lobbying and strategic litigation. The book looks at eight national campaigns for law reform waged by the protagonists of the Indian women’s movement between the 1970s and today, addressing sexual assault, domestic violence, and family law, among other issues. Using interviews and other primary source materials, it illustrates how women’s rights activists and feminist lawyers think about the law and how they work to make the law more gender-just. The book develops a multi-faceted approach to understanding feminist legal activism and shows how activists’ strategies, constitutional rights, the responsiveness of courts and parliaments, and socio-cultural factors impact the outcome of legal activism. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Dr. Giesing Foundation. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1778702026-06-22T05:28:05Z Feminist Legal Activism in India Herklotz, Tanja Family law Feminist activism Global South India South Asia Legal activism Legal change Litigation Religion Violence against women Women’s movement Women’s rights thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAQ Law and society, sociology of law::LAQG Law and society, gender issues thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LND Constitutional and administrative law: general::LNDC Law: Human rights and civil liberties This open access book examines the work of feminists engaging with legislative lobbying and strategic litigation in their fight for equality and self-determination. Across the world, feminists engage in legal activism. This book showcases the ways in which feminists in India have been particularly successful in their legal interventions such as legislative lobbying and strategic litigation. The book looks at eight national campaigns for law reform waged by the protagonists of the Indian women’s movement between the 1970s and today, addressing sexual assault, domestic violence, and family law, among other issues. Using interviews and other primary source materials, it illustrates how women’s rights activists and feminist lawyers think about the law and how they work to make the law more gender-just. The book develops a multi-faceted approach to understanding feminist legal activism and shows how activists’ strategies, constitutional rights, the responsiveness of courts and parliaments, and socio-cultural factors impact the outcome of legal activism. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Dr. Giesing Foundation. 2026-06-22T05:28:04Z 2026-06-22T05:28:04Z 2026-06-21T09:19:01Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103019_9781509985692_106 https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350339200?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114233 9781509985692 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177870 eng open access Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hart Publishing b7fec79e-c133-4cb3-9544-88060a4d4e06 Dr. Giesing Foundation ac7aa491-fd52-447f-a2bb-3e8052dc41dd 0e4ac1d3-327e-4411-8ad7-473bbabf3808 263b2ebf-f576-446d-a9b2-aa7af3a47238 9781509985692 Hart Publishing 224 London [...] [...] Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Humboldt-Universität 10.13039/501100006211 open access |
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