Rukmini Sen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3598714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rukmini Sen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rukmini |
| FAMILY NAME | Sen |
| SIGNATURE | SEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ambedkar University Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8101-9886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Contemporary feminist signposts: dispatches from field(s)
Inter-caste/Community Marriages
In India, caste and religious customs have long guided marriage decisions. Even today, inter-caste and inter-religious marriages are viewed as a deviation. Though the Constitution of India had legalized inter-religious marriage through the Special Marriage Act, 1954 in most of the instances, it is socially unacceptable. There has also been an increase in love marriages; however, such relationships are not always acknowledged. In this context, thi…
Pyaar, Promise, Dhoka
This commentary is on one ‘promise to marry’ judgment and its feminist re-writing. Promise to marry cases involve a woman agreeing to sexual intercourse with a partner relying on his promise to marry her subsequently. In inter-caste relationships, the offer of promise to marriage as a basis for engaging in sexual intercourse raises complex issues. The impunity of the caste system means that if the promise is not followed through, the woman may no…
Intersectional Feminist Activism and Practices of Transformation
While it is true that there have been and continues to be multiple ways in which intersectional feminist agendas are invisibilized, it is equally important to foreground ways in which intersectional feminists affirm themselves as transformatory agents and create new directions in practice and pedagogy. This article will engage with three legal moments of intersectional feminist transformation: legislation on transgender persons (2019), an interse…
Doing Feminisms in the Academy
Women’s Subjectivities of Suffering and Legal Rhetoric on Domestic Violence
It is undoubtedly true that feminist politics in the last three decades has struggled to make visible an entire range of social practices that are inimical to women and brought them under the rubric of ‘violence’. This article revisits the meaning of violence when translated in the language of law. In the courtroom, the meaning of violence has to be technically grounded as the law would want it to be, filtering from it many nuances that possibly …
Women’s Subjectivities of Suffering and Legal Rhetoric on Domestic Violence
It is undoubtedly true that feminist politics in the last three decades has struggled to make visible an entire range of social practices that are inimical to women and brought them under the rubric of ‘violence’. This article revisits the meaning of violence when translated in the language of law. In the courtroom, the meaning of violence has to be technically grounded as the law would want it to be, filtering from it many nuances that possibly …
Intersectional Feminist Activism and Practices of Transformation
While it is true that there have been and continues to be multiple ways in which intersectional feminist agendas are invisibilized, it is equally important to foreground ways in which intersectional feminists affirm themselves as transformatory agents and create new directions in practice and pedagogy. This article will engage with three legal moments of intersectional feminist transformation: legislation on transgender persons (2019), an interse…
Women’s Subjectivities of Suffering and Legal Rhetoric on Domestic Violence
It is undoubtedly true that feminist politics in the last three decades has struggled to make visible an entire range of social practices that are inimical to women and brought them under the rubric of ‘violence’. This article revisits the meaning of violence when translated in the language of law. In the courtroom, the meaning of violence has to be technically grounded as the law would want it to be, filtering from it many nuances that possibly …
Doing Feminisms in the Academy
Pyaar, Promise, Dhoka
This commentary is on one ‘promise to marry’ judgment and its feminist re-writing. Promise to marry cases involve a woman agreeing to sexual intercourse with a partner relying on his promise to marry her subsequently. In inter-caste relationships, the offer of promise to marriage as a basis for engaging in sexual intercourse raises complex issues. The impunity of the caste system means that if the promise is not followed through, the woman may no…
Intersectional Feminist Activism and Practices of Transformation
While it is true that there have been and continues to be multiple ways in which intersectional feminist agendas are invisibilized, it is equally important to foreground ways in which intersectional feminists affirm themselves as transformatory agents and create new directions in practice and pedagogy. This article will engage with three legal moments of intersectional feminist transformation: legislation on transgender persons (2019), an interse…
Inter-caste/Community Marriages
In India, caste and religious customs have long guided marriage decisions. Even today, inter-caste and inter-religious marriages are viewed as a deviation. Though the Constitution of India had legalized inter-religious marriage through the Special Marriage Act, 1954 in most of the instances, it is socially unacceptable. There has also been an increase in love marriages; however, such relationships are not always acknowledged. In this context, thi…
Contemporary feminist signposts: dispatches from field(s)
Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Caste (2 works) · Law in Society and Culture (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Allegation (1 works)