Rina Verma Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 5841170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rina Verma Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rina Verma |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS R V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Feminism, identities, and the substantive representation of women on the right – crafting a global dialogue
Conservative parties across the globe are confronted with how to respond to feminist demands both from within their own parties, competing parties, and from civil society. This Dialogue section illustrates how conservative parties across the Global North and the Global South respond to feminist demands by co-opting or resisting feminist ideas with conservative values in political discourse and policy initiatives
Repeal and (not) replace”? Hindu nationalist women and feminism in India
India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) responses to feminism developed in two stages. In the 1980s, BJP women worked to delegitimize feminism by co-opting feminist language and issues. After 2010, the BJP seemingly increased women’s descriptive representation, but not women’s substantive representation. The BJP has implemented neither policies that feminists support (gender quotas), nor those that feminists oppose (uniform civil…
Secular Anxieties and Transnational Engagements in India
What’s Law Got to Do With It? Economics, Nation-Building, and Human Rights in India and Beyond
The review essay examines three recently published books: Eleanor Newbigin’s The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India: Law, Citizenship and Community, Narendra Subramanian’s Nation and Family: Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India, and Yüksel Sezgin’s Human Rights Under State-Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt and India
Failure to Launch
What role does the participation of women play in the political success or failure of radical right-wing religious movements? This study examines the participation of women in the politics of the radical Hindu right in India – known as Hindu nationalism – in its formative years at the turn of the twentieth century. I rely on interpretive empirical methods of archival research and close reading of major texts and speeches, papers, and party docume…
The More Things Change
Personal Laws and Noninterference
This chapter deals with the policies of the British colonial government during the colonial period, when the norm of noninterference was established. The state defines the agenda on the personal laws, illustrating a gap between the rhetoric and the actions of noninterference in the personal laws. The social reform legislation ordained under the rubric of piecemeal legislation was apparently intended to benefit Indian women. Official or legislativ…
Postcolonial Politics and Personal Laws
Placing the contemporary discussion on personal laws in India in historical perspective, this important book views the debate as a critical component of Indian democracy. Balancing the imperatives of multiculturalism, national integration, and gender justice, it affirms that there is a complex continuity between the terms of the debate in the postcolonial Indian state and its colonial counterpart
Feminism, identities, and the substantive representation of women on the right – crafting a global dialogue
Conservative parties across the globe are confronted with how to respond to feminist demands both from within their own parties, competing parties, and from civil society. This Dialogue section illustrates how conservative parties across the Global North and the Global South respond to feminist demands by co-opting or resisting feminist ideas with conservative values in political discourse and policy initiatives
The More Things Change
Personal Laws and Noninterference
This chapter deals with the policies of the British colonial government during the colonial period, when the norm of noninterference was established. The state defines the agenda on the personal laws, illustrating a gap between the rhetoric and the actions of noninterference in the personal laws. The social reform legislation ordained under the rubric of piecemeal legislation was apparently intended to benefit Indian women. Official or legislativ…
Postcolonial Politics and Personal Laws
Placing the contemporary discussion on personal laws in India in historical perspective, this important book views the debate as a critical component of Indian democracy. Balancing the imperatives of multiculturalism, national integration, and gender justice, it affirms that there is a complex continuity between the terms of the debate in the postcolonial Indian state and its colonial counterpart
Failure to Launch
What role does the participation of women play in the political success or failure of radical right-wing religious movements? This study examines the participation of women in the politics of the radical Hindu right in India – known as Hindu nationalism – in its formative years at the turn of the twentieth century. I rely on interpretive empirical methods of archival research and close reading of major texts and speeches, papers, and party docume…
The More Things Change
Secular Anxieties and Transnational Engagements in India
What’s Law Got to Do With It? Economics, Nation-Building, and Human Rights in India and Beyond
The review essay examines three recently published books: Eleanor Newbigin’s The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India: Law, Citizenship and Community, Narendra Subramanian’s Nation and Family: Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India, and Yüksel Sezgin’s Human Rights Under State-Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt and India
Feminism, identities, and the substantive representation of women on the right – crafting a global dialogue
Conservative parties across the globe are confronted with how to respond to feminist demands both from within their own parties, competing parties, and from civil society. This Dialogue section illustrates how conservative parties across the Global North and the Global South respond to feminist demands by co-opting or resisting feminist ideas with conservative values in political discourse and policy initiatives
Repeal and (not) replace”? Hindu nationalist women and feminism in India
India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) responses to feminism developed in two stages. In the 1980s, BJP women worked to delegitimize feminism by co-opting feminist language and issues. After 2010, the BJP seemingly increased women’s descriptive representation, but not women’s substantive representation. The BJP has implemented neither policies that feminists support (gender quotas), nor those that feminists oppose (uniform civil…
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Hinduism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Religious Studies (4 works)