Hindus are the most homogeneous community in India and we find diversity in practices all across India. It is in fact better to work within personal law and make it better. It is now recognized that legal pluralism is more democratic than uniform laws as it is impossible to bring about one law that is good for everyone. We don’t not even consider it to be a viable option because of the futility of standardizing uniformity. For the right politics to be put in place, the community should be confident to being self critical, she said.Įlaborating further on Uniform Civil Code, she said, “Women’s movement since 90s no longer believes uniformity will bring about justice. Today even Bangladesh has managed to reform Muslim laws, but here such moves generate controversy. This gave the BJP a trigger for Hindu mobilization.
Then there is also the fact that these are talked about as national integration issues and not as women’s right issues,” she said.Īnalyzing the political scenario, she said in 1980s, in the aftermath of the Shah Bano case, the Congress Party started on a path of Muslim pleasing, basically the pleasing of the communal elements within the community. First of all the personal law of almost religions discriminate against women.
She asserted that feminists find no cause to rejoice over recent political initiatives like the abolition of Triple Talaq and the idea of having a Uniform Civil Code for India. Feminism is also not exactly a western import as India has a very old feminist movement going back to the colonial period.” Feminism also recognizes that gender is only one of the axis of power in society, along with others like caste and class. The structure of patriarchy produces men and women in a certain way which perpetuates the system. Feminism is about recognizing the structural ways in which our society favours men. Nivedita Menon analyzed the concept of feminism and the way it manifests in the political space.Ĭlarifying on the stance of feminism, Prof Menon said: “Feminism is not anti-men. Gomathi Memorial Education Trust on the subject “Feminist Politics in India Today: Some Key Issues” at St Aloysius College in the city on Monday, 26 February, 2018 Prof. Mangaluru: Delivering the second edition of the Annual Lecture hosted by P.
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