Author: Haleemah Patel
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Valuing unpaid domestic labour in maintenance and alimony claims
Saumya Maheshwari teaches law at the School of Law, BML Munjal University in Haryana, India. In the past, she has worked as a matrimonial disputes lawyer before courts in Delhi and as a researcher with domestic and international organizations advocating for women’s and queer people’s rights. Presently, her research interests focus on economic entitlements within…
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Social Reproduction and Financial Extractivism
Third Annual Lecture in the Laws of Social Reproduction With the increasing financialization of the reproduction of life, the reproductive relation is shown, more than ever, to be the space of valorization and accumulation par excellence. This is due to the fact that in order for finance to be able to invade and colonize the…
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Why Surrogates Are Still Passive Deliverers Of Service, With Few Rights
New Delhi: India’s new laws on surrogacy, meant to prevent exploitative practices, still do not fully recognise the surrogate’s rights to full economic, medical, legal, and physical protection, says legal scholars and gender activists. This lack of reproductive justice also extends to discriminatory rules on who deserves to be a parent through surrogacy. The two laws…
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Conversations on social reproduction: Extractive Masculinities: Value Chains and Relational Work in Indian Microfinance
Smitha Radhakrishnan, LuElla LaMer Professor of Women’s Studies, Professor of Sociology Commercial microfinance in India, a subprime credit industry that lends to over 35 million working-class women at interest rates of 20 to 26 percent, has experienced unprecedented growth in the last decade. These profit-oriented microfinance institutions (MFIs), supported by financial inclusion policies, have funneled…
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Conversations on social reproduction: Understanding Sex Work through the Lens of Caste and Gender
A conversation concerning the recent Supreme Court order in the Buddhadeb Karmaskar case recognising the right to dignity of sex workers. Several dalit, bahujan and adivasi feminists have disagreed with this framing of the Supreme Court on the issue of sex work. Hence we are bringing together sex workers from the All India Network of…
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Revaluing Unpaid Work
The Case of the Orunodoi Scheme
in AssamThe 2021 state assembly elections offered a unique and unexpected opportunity for the recognition of women’s unpaid domestic and care work through the promises of unconditional cash transfers. These cash transfers present feminists with a valuable opportunity to theorise the welfare state. This article uses primary data and in-depth interviews to evaluate one such scheme,…
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Vengeance and Vulnerability: Gendered Embodiment and Indian Men’s Rights Activists
Some recent articles on masculinity, law, marriage and violence appear in anthologies including 50thAnniversary Commemorative Volume of Contributions to Indian Sociology (2019) and Men and Feminism inIndia (2018), and the journals Feminist Anthropology and QED. She is presently working on a monographabout the antifeminist men’s rights movement in India, following fieldwork funded by a Fulbright-NehruSenior…
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SC Order Grants Dignity To Sex Work But It Is Far From Being Decriminalised
New Delhi: The recent Supreme Court directives on guaranteeing sex workers dignity and constitutional freedoms still leaves some critical problem areas unaddressed and these can only be resolved when the profession is decriminalised, say activists and sex workers’ networks. Apart from the right to unionise, these gaps relate to the criminalisation of many activities relating to sex work…
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The work of preparing for work: Education and skills training as social reproduction
Asiya Islam is Lecturer in Work and Employment Relations, University of Leedsdownload the event poster
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Valuing women’s work: Towards a convergence of own-account, waged, and unpaid care and domestic work?
Abstract The work performed by women is varied. Most women work on own-account in unincorporated household/family enterprises in India, while those engaged in paid, waged work are fewer. In addition, women also perform long hours of unpaid work in care and domestic work within the home. Recognising and valuing such forms of work performed by…