Shading the Secular
Law at Work in the Indian Higher Courts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3877654 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Basu (0000-0002-5046-6912, DePauw University, corresponding author), Srimati Basu (DePauw University) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 131-152 |
| Publication date | 2003-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0921374003015002001 |
| OpenAlex | W2013588410 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article examines the ways in which issues of `secularism' are politicized within the nation state, particularly the ways in which women's rights become critical sites of conflict surrounding political hegemony and minority rights. Focusing on judgments related to Muslim women in post-Independence India, it argues that legal solutions have the potential to be powerful instruments for achieving greater gender equity as well as insidious sites for recuperation of gender, class, and religious hegemonies in the guise of protection and liberation. The slippage between the stated intent, subtext, and effects of both `progressive' and `reactionary' legislation indicates that feminist theorists should engage with issues of personal law strategically while seeking alternate meanings of community and identity
Essentialism · Hegemony · Identity politics · Legislation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reactionary · Secular state · Secularism · Sociology · Subtext · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Legal and cultural studies analysis
Policy Analysis beyond Personal Law
Separate and Unequal
Abuse, Danger, and Security in Transnational Marriages
Democracy as Civil Religion
Mumtaz Bibi's broken heart
Group-based Microcredit & Emergent Inequality in Social Capital
The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism
She's Come Undone
Gendering ethnic conflicts
Feminism unmodified
Recasting women
Women, Islam and the State
Women, Islam and the State
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Looking White People in the Eye
The Cultural Articulation of Patriarchy
Patriarchy and the Politics of Gender in Modernizing Societies
Litigating Feminist 'Truth
Deconstruction and Law's Other
The Politics of Secularism and the Recovery of Religious Tolerance
Feminism Unmodified
At the Boundaries of Law
The Quest for National Identity
Jawaharlal Nehru and the Hindu Code
Law, State and Agrarian Society in Colonial India
Women between Community and State
Religious Minorities and the Secular State
Shahbano
What Is a Muslim? Fundamental Commitment and Cultural Identity
Reading from the text
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2018 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |