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This public lecture will explore feminism in India, tracing its evolution and the Indian women’s movement from the 1970s to today.
Professor Srila Roy will reflect on the challenges faced by an evolving feminism – from the inadequacies of legal reform to the politics of institutionalisation, ‘NGOisation’ to the emergence of ‘new feminisms’.
The talk will underscore how feminism has emerged as an intense object of internal contestation, both in India and elsewhere around the world.
Professor Srila Roy is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Professor Roy is an Editor of Feminist Theory, Associate Editor of the Journal of South Asian Development Asia, and a member of the South African Young Academy of Science. She is the author of Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement (Oxford, 2012), editor of New South Asian Feminisms (Zed, 2012), and co-editor of New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualising Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India (Oxford, 2015). Srila is currently writing a monograph on feminist politics in liberalised India.
This public lecture will explore feminism in India, tracing its evolution and the Indian women’s movement from the 1970s to today.
Professor Srila Roy will reflect on the challenges faced by an evolving feminism – from the inadequacies of legal reform to the politics of institutionalisation, ‘NGOisation’ to the emergence of ‘new feminisms’.
The talk will underscore how feminism has emerged as an intense object of internal contestation, both in India and elsewhere around the world.
Professor Srila Roy is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Professor Roy is an Editor of Feminist Theory, Associate Editor of the Journal of South Asian Development Asia, and a member of the South African Young Academy of Science. She is the author of Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement (Oxford, 2012), editor of New South Asian Feminisms (Zed, 2012), and co-editor of New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualising Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India (Oxford, 2015). Srila is currently writing a monograph on feminist politics in liberalised India.
