At Ultra Violet, Usha BN eplains why ‘gender does not function in isolation’:
Linked by kuffir. Join Blogbharti facebook group.In the 70s and 80s, the women’s movement in India focused on mobilising women across caste, class and ethnic background against violence and discrimination. Women were seen as a single political category. So there was a universalising approach which held that all women were in powerless positions regardless of their background. But in fact, women are placed in different locations in our social hierarchy. Social context and institutional structures around them play a large role in determining their rights.
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