Meena Gopal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4196818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meena Gopal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meena |
| FAMILY NAME | Gopal |
| SIGNATURE | GOPAL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-1043-6654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feminist Approaches to Understanding Women’s Work in Indian Agriculture
This article will attempt to trace feminist discourses and theoretical perspectives to understand women’s work in the rural economy, largely focused on India and South Asia. This scholarship has drawn from a range of theoretical standpoints, resistance movements and lived experiences of women workers. While historically evolving from Marxist and socialist feminist articulations, eco-feminist perspectives, blended with livelihood perspectives to a…
Ways of Seeing’—Policy paradigms and unfree labour in India
This article traces the trajectory of different initiatives to address unfree labour and their impact on workers’ capacity to aspire to and exercise their rights in India. We attempt to understand the dimensions and effects of different ‘ways of seeing’ precarity and exploitation within the larger context of economic policies, social structures such as caste-based discrimination, gender-based violence, and state indifference. In a caste and gende…
Towards Greater Civility
This paper explores how queer/feminist practices and articulations—by offering critical perspectives on the intersections of caste, labour and sexuality—have tried to draw attention to the marginalisation of people expressing non-normative genders and sexualities. Adapting lessons from the women’s movement, which resonates with some of the principles of an Ambedkarite vision of democracy, queer and feminist activists adopt and practise a transver…
Sexuality and Social Reproduction
This article tries in a preliminary manner to establish links between sexual labour, the negotiations of everyday life and the reproduction of social relations. The context for this interrogation is the recent ban in 2005 on dancing in beer bars in the Indian city of Mumbai; the attempts by the state to legitimise its action amidst a range of national and international rhetoric on sexual labour, and the voices of women who were disenfranchised du…
Caste, sexuality and labour
This article examines the troubled connection between feminist research and activism. As a member of the autonomous feminist collective Forum Against Oppression of Women, in Mumbai, the author draws on her participation in the ongoing discussions and dialogue, both within the group and with other organizations, and uses the case of feminist thinking on caste and sexual labour to discuss the challenges and prospects of linking research with practi…
Caste, sexuality and labour
This article examines the troubled connection between feminist research and activism. As a member of the autonomous feminist collective Forum Against Oppression of Women, in Mumbai, the author draws on her participation in the ongoing discussions and dialogue, both within the group and with other organizations, and uses the case of feminist thinking on caste and sexual labour to discuss the challenges and prospects of linking research with practi…
Sexuality and Social Reproduction
This article tries in a preliminary manner to establish links between sexual labour, the negotiations of everyday life and the reproduction of social relations. The context for this interrogation is the recent ban in 2005 on dancing in beer bars in the Indian city of Mumbai; the attempts by the state to legitimise its action amidst a range of national and international rhetoric on sexual labour, and the voices of women who were disenfranchised du…
Caste, sexuality and labour
This article examines the troubled connection between feminist research and activism. As a member of the autonomous feminist collective Forum Against Oppression of Women, in Mumbai, the author draws on her participation in the ongoing discussions and dialogue, both within the group and with other organizations, and uses the case of feminist thinking on caste and sexual labour to discuss the challenges and prospects of linking research with practi…
Sexuality and Social Reproduction
This article tries in a preliminary manner to establish links between sexual labour, the negotiations of everyday life and the reproduction of social relations. The context for this interrogation is the recent ban in 2005 on dancing in beer bars in the Indian city of Mumbai; the attempts by the state to legitimise its action amidst a range of national and international rhetoric on sexual labour, and the voices of women who were disenfranchised du…
Towards Greater Civility
This paper explores how queer/feminist practices and articulations—by offering critical perspectives on the intersections of caste, labour and sexuality—have tried to draw attention to the marginalisation of people expressing non-normative genders and sexualities. Adapting lessons from the women’s movement, which resonates with some of the principles of an Ambedkarite vision of democracy, queer and feminist activists adopt and practise a transver…
Ways of Seeing’—Policy paradigms and unfree labour in India
This article traces the trajectory of different initiatives to address unfree labour and their impact on workers’ capacity to aspire to and exercise their rights in India. We attempt to understand the dimensions and effects of different ‘ways of seeing’ precarity and exploitation within the larger context of economic policies, social structures such as caste-based discrimination, gender-based violence, and state indifference. In a caste and gende…
Feminist Approaches to Understanding Women’s Work in Indian Agriculture
This article will attempt to trace feminist discourses and theoretical perspectives to understand women’s work in the rural economy, largely focused on India and South Asia. This scholarship has drawn from a range of theoretical standpoints, resistance movements and lived experiences of women workers. While historically evolving from Marxist and socialist feminist articulations, eco-feminist perspectives, blended with livelihood perspectives to a…
Caste (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Human sexuality (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Feminism (2 works)