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Women and Violence in India: Gender, Oppression and the Politics of Neoliberalism

Women and Violence in India: Gender, Oppression and the Politics of Neoliberalism

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Series: Library of Development Studies

CriminologyGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 1784532444
ISBN13: 9781784532444
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 13 2017
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

India's endemic gender-based violence has received increased international scrutiny and provoked waves of domestic protest and activism. In recent years, related studies on India and South Asia have proliferated but their analyses often fail to identify why violence flourishes. Unwilling to simply accept patriarchy as the answer, Tamsin Bradley presents new research examining how different groups in India conceptualise violence against women, revealing beliefs around religion, caste and gender that render aggression socially acceptable. She also analyses the role that neoliberalism, and its corollary consumerism, play in reducing women to commodity objects for barter or exchange. Unpacking varied conservative, liberal and neoliberal ideologies active in India today, Bradley argues that they can converge unexpectedly to normalise violence against women. Due to these complex and overlapping factors, rates of violence against women in India have actually increased despite decades of feminist campaigning.

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