Sharmila Lodhia
Biographic Data
| ID | 338818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharmila Lodhia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharmila |
| FAMILY NAME | Lodhia |
| SIGNATURE | LODHIA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | d Santa Clara University, Political Science Dept. , 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, 95053, USA E-mail |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rewriting Race: Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the Power of Dissent
What Hungers Call Us Home? Engaging Autotheory Through Food
What Hungers Call Us Home? Engaging Autotheory Through Food Azza Basarudin (bio), Tina Beyene (bio), Elora Halim Chowdhury (bio), Sharmila Lodhia (bio), Catherine Z. Sameh (bio), and Khanum Shaikh (bio) introduction For decades, feminists have engaged food as an arena for both the reproduction of, and resistance to, patriarchal norms.1 While stories of the everyday food habits and practices may seem banal, feminist food studies scholars have conv…
Resounding/Resonating Sounds of Home, Heritage, and Heart: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Re/Membering the Self Through Storying Family
Initially, this collaborative autoethnography brought together five authors to explore the trope of sound through re/membering the self and storying family. But it very quickly became an exploration of the inter-reliability and inner relatability of sounds of home, heritage, and the heart across diverse human lived experiences of grief, mourning, recovery, and intergenerational legacies of hope. The essay explores the relational practice between …
When Draupadi says #MeToo: Indian comics reimagining gender justice
Comics are a familiar and widespread form of popular culture within India and throughout the diaspora. They offer a unique format for the examination of new landscapes of gender relations and can broaden, albeit in an exploratory way, the boundaries and expressions of power and agency. Visual storytelling, through a set of graphic texts, presents a particularly evocative context for gender critique of sexual violence and for analyzing terrains of…
New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights
From “living corpse” to India's daughter: Exploring the social, political and legal landscape of the 2012 Delhi gang rape
Deconstructing Sita's Blues: Questions of Mis/representation, Cultural Property, and Feminist Critique in Nina Paley's Ramayana
Hinduism has long maintained a presence in US popular culture. Yoga, self-realization, and meditation have been appropriated for decades by those seeking the enlightenment promises of the East. I had grown numb to the seamless entry of Hindu artifacts and iconography into the US marketplace until recently, when I began to notice disconcerting patterns of pop-culture-ized images of Hindu gods and goddesses emblazoned on socks, shoes, T-shirts, swi…
Stop Importing Weapons of Family Destruction!”: Cyberdiscourses, Patriarchal Anxieties, and the Men’s Backlash Movement in India
A critical, albeit understudied, dimension of the backlash against women's anti-violence advocacy is the rise of Indian men's rights organizations formed to lobby for changes to, and in some cases, the complete abolition of vital legal protections for women. Utilizing cyber forums, public protests, and print media, these groups disseminate narratives of women wreaking destruction on the Indian family through their alleged misuse of "gender-biased…
A Feminist World is Possible: Artists and Activists Speak About Human Rights
New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights: An Introduction
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights that underscores the creative displays of grassroots resistance by women globally and affirms transnational feminist solidarity. In highlighting feminisms and human rights that are antiracist and social justice oriented, this issue highlights new research that reveals the transfo…
Constructing an Imperfect Citizen-Subject: Globalization, National "Security," and Violence Against South Asian Women
The landscape of antiviolence advocacy for South Asian women living in the United States has been altered in several significant ways. My research on legal advocacy for South Asian women suggests that distinct patterns of abuse against immigrant women are not easily addressed within existing legal paradigms of domestic violence because mainstream advocacy models continue to imagine as their primary subject women who do not experience interlocking…
Legal Frankensteins and Monstrous Women
Anti-violence activism for women in India has been riddled with a unique advocacy challenge. Women experiencing violence within the home confront a widespread backlash against Penal Code section 498A, the only criminal law in India that specifically encompasses domestic violence. Analysis of this phenomenon reveals that this prohibition against marital cruelty has been drastically undermined by a level of skepticism that not only permeates societ…
Demanding the Right to Live without Violence
Research Article| September 01 2002 Demanding the Right to Live without Violence: Reflections on Color of Violence 11 Sharmila Lodhia; Sharmila Lodhia sharmila lodhia is currently a doctoral student in women's studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her law degree from Hastings College and worked as a civil rights advocate for women at the California Women's Law Center. Her research examines the intersections of race, g…
New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights: An Introduction
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights that underscores the creative displays of grassroots resistance by women globally and affirms transnational feminist solidarity. In highlighting feminisms and human rights that are antiracist and social justice oriented, this issue highlights new research that reveals the transfo…
From “living corpse” to India's daughter: Exploring the social, political and legal landscape of the 2012 Delhi gang rape
Stop Importing Weapons of Family Destruction!”: Cyberdiscourses, Patriarchal Anxieties, and the Men’s Backlash Movement in India
A critical, albeit understudied, dimension of the backlash against women's anti-violence advocacy is the rise of Indian men's rights organizations formed to lobby for changes to, and in some cases, the complete abolition of vital legal protections for women. Utilizing cyber forums, public protests, and print media, these groups disseminate narratives of women wreaking destruction on the Indian family through their alleged misuse of "gender-biased…
When Draupadi says #MeToo: Indian comics reimagining gender justice
Comics are a familiar and widespread form of popular culture within India and throughout the diaspora. They offer a unique format for the examination of new landscapes of gender relations and can broaden, albeit in an exploratory way, the boundaries and expressions of power and agency. Visual storytelling, through a set of graphic texts, presents a particularly evocative context for gender critique of sexual violence and for analyzing terrains of…
Legal Frankensteins and Monstrous Women
Anti-violence activism for women in India has been riddled with a unique advocacy challenge. Women experiencing violence within the home confront a widespread backlash against Penal Code section 498A, the only criminal law in India that specifically encompasses domestic violence. Analysis of this phenomenon reveals that this prohibition against marital cruelty has been drastically undermined by a level of skepticism that not only permeates societ…
Resounding/Resonating Sounds of Home, Heritage, and Heart: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Re/Membering the Self Through Storying Family
Initially, this collaborative autoethnography brought together five authors to explore the trope of sound through re/membering the self and storying family. But it very quickly became an exploration of the inter-reliability and inner relatability of sounds of home, heritage, and the heart across diverse human lived experiences of grief, mourning, recovery, and intergenerational legacies of hope. The essay explores the relational practice between …
A Feminist World is Possible: Artists and Activists Speak About Human Rights
Demanding the Right to Live without Violence
Research Article| September 01 2002 Demanding the Right to Live without Violence: Reflections on Color of Violence 11 Sharmila Lodhia; Sharmila Lodhia sharmila lodhia is currently a doctoral student in women's studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her law degree from Hastings College and worked as a civil rights advocate for women at the California Women's Law Center. Her research examines the intersections of race, g…
Legal Frankensteins and Monstrous Women
Anti-violence activism for women in India has been riddled with a unique advocacy challenge. Women experiencing violence within the home confront a widespread backlash against Penal Code section 498A, the only criminal law in India that specifically encompasses domestic violence. Analysis of this phenomenon reveals that this prohibition against marital cruelty has been drastically undermined by a level of skepticism that not only permeates societ…
A Feminist World is Possible: Artists and Activists Speak About Human Rights
New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights: An Introduction
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights that underscores the creative displays of grassroots resistance by women globally and affirms transnational feminist solidarity. In highlighting feminisms and human rights that are antiracist and social justice oriented, this issue highlights new research that reveals the transfo…
Constructing an Imperfect Citizen-Subject: Globalization, National "Security," and Violence Against South Asian Women
The landscape of antiviolence advocacy for South Asian women living in the United States has been altered in several significant ways. My research on legal advocacy for South Asian women suggests that distinct patterns of abuse against immigrant women are not easily addressed within existing legal paradigms of domestic violence because mainstream advocacy models continue to imagine as their primary subject women who do not experience interlocking…
Stop Importing Weapons of Family Destruction!”: Cyberdiscourses, Patriarchal Anxieties, and the Men’s Backlash Movement in India
A critical, albeit understudied, dimension of the backlash against women's anti-violence advocacy is the rise of Indian men's rights organizations formed to lobby for changes to, and in some cases, the complete abolition of vital legal protections for women. Utilizing cyber forums, public protests, and print media, these groups disseminate narratives of women wreaking destruction on the Indian family through their alleged misuse of "gender-biased…
From “living corpse” to India's daughter: Exploring the social, political and legal landscape of the 2012 Delhi gang rape
Deconstructing Sita's Blues: Questions of Mis/representation, Cultural Property, and Feminist Critique in Nina Paley's Ramayana
Hinduism has long maintained a presence in US popular culture. Yoga, self-realization, and meditation have been appropriated for decades by those seeking the enlightenment promises of the East. I had grown numb to the seamless entry of Hindu artifacts and iconography into the US marketplace until recently, when I began to notice disconcerting patterns of pop-culture-ized images of Hindu gods and goddesses emblazoned on socks, shoes, T-shirts, swi…
New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights
When Draupadi says #MeToo: Indian comics reimagining gender justice
Comics are a familiar and widespread form of popular culture within India and throughout the diaspora. They offer a unique format for the examination of new landscapes of gender relations and can broaden, albeit in an exploratory way, the boundaries and expressions of power and agency. Visual storytelling, through a set of graphic texts, presents a particularly evocative context for gender critique of sexual violence and for analyzing terrains of…
What Hungers Call Us Home? Engaging Autotheory Through Food
What Hungers Call Us Home? Engaging Autotheory Through Food Azza Basarudin (bio), Tina Beyene (bio), Elora Halim Chowdhury (bio), Sharmila Lodhia (bio), Catherine Z. Sameh (bio), and Khanum Shaikh (bio) introduction For decades, feminists have engaged food as an arena for both the reproduction of, and resistance to, patriarchal norms.1 While stories of the everyday food habits and practices may seem banal, feminist food studies scholars have conv…
Resounding/Resonating Sounds of Home, Heritage, and Heart: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Re/Membering the Self Through Storying Family
Initially, this collaborative autoethnography brought together five authors to explore the trope of sound through re/membering the self and storying family. But it very quickly became an exploration of the inter-reliability and inner relatability of sounds of home, heritage, and the heart across diverse human lived experiences of grief, mourning, recovery, and intergenerational legacies of hope. The essay explores the relational practice between …
Rewriting Race: Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the Power of Dissent
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Criminology (4 works)