Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India
Natasha Behl
Abstract
It has been shown time and again that even though all citizens may be accorded equal standing in the constitution of a liberal democracy, such a legal provision hardly guarantees state protections against discrimination and political exclusion. More specifically, why do we find pervasive gender-based discrimination, exclusion, and violence in India when the Indian Constitution supports an inclusive democracy committed to gender and caste equality?
Keywords: democracy, citizenship, gender, gendered violence, religion, feminist methodologies, ethnography, India, Sikhs
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780190949426 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2019 | DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190949426.001.0001 |
