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‘Others’ Within the ‘Others’: An Intersectional Analysis of Gender Violence in India [PDF]
Gender Issues, 2019 In 2018, the rapes of two young girls shook India. The ruling government blatantly supported the perpetrators in both cases. It was also highlighted that if the victims were high class, high caste or belonged to the Hindu community, public and media ...
Adrija Dey
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Mediating Rape: The Nirbhaya Effect in the Creative and Digital Arts [PDF]
Signs, 2017 While reports of ‘Nirbhaya’ referring to the brutal gang rape of a young woman on a moving bus in Delhi 2012 have been prolific, less attention has been paid to other media and artistic representations on the subject. In this article, I consider how the atrocity has been mediated through multiple outlets in India as part of a reinvigorated aesthetics ...
Raminder Kaur
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From Slutwalks to Nirbhaya: Shifts in the Indian women's movement
Women's Studies International Forum, 2019Abstract This paper takes a closer look at two significant mass-based feminist movements in India – Slutwalks and Nirbhaya agitation. Key questions guiding this paper are – why did Slut Walk Delhi, characterized as a ‘movement’ against victim blaming and sexual harassment fail to build momentum despite attempts at mobilization?
Mahima Taneja
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Gender and Caste Intersectionality in India: An Analysis of the Nirbhaya Case, 16 December 2012 [PDF]
Advances in Gender Research, 2016 Purpose: This chapter deals with the concept of intersectionality with particular reference to the interconnectedness of gender, class and caste discrimination in India. Even though much of the work on intersectionality has been carried out by scholars from the United States with specific emphasis on gender and race, this framework can be applied ...
Adrija Dey
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‘Something adequate’? In memoriam Seamus Heaney, Sister Quinlan, Nirbhaya
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 2014Seamus Heaney talked of poetry's responsibility to represent the ‘bloody miracle’, the ‘terrible beauty’ of atrocity; to create ‘something adequate’. This article asks, what is adequate to the burning and eating of a nun and the murderous gang rape and evisceration of a medical student? It considers Njabulo Ndebele's answer: the retelling of the story
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Ten Years Since Nirbhaya: A Critical Analysis of Retributive Justice in Addressing Sexual Violence
Global Advances in Victimology and Psychological Studies, 2022Following the infamous Nirbhaya gang rape incident in December, 2012, a host of rape law reforms were introduced in India, including stringent punishment and death penalty under the Criminal Law Amendment Act and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
Garima Jain, Ankita Mishra
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Gender and Language, 2019
This article examines representations of sexual violence in Femina, an Englishlanguage women’s lifestyle magazine aimed at middle-class Indian women. A story of rape, written from the perspective of the victim, a lower-caste Indian woman is analysed using feminist critical discourse analysis.
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This article examines representations of sexual violence in Femina, an Englishlanguage women’s lifestyle magazine aimed at middle-class Indian women. A story of rape, written from the perspective of the victim, a lower-caste Indian woman is analysed using feminist critical discourse analysis.
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