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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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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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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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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…
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Reframing the contemporary child marriage debate – Lessons from India
Recent legislative developments on child marriage in India come at a time when the national data shows declining prevalence and a shift from child to early marriage. Evidence indicates that poverty and insecurity within patriarchal contexts are the main drivers of early marriage, a fact corroborated by the reported spike in child and early marriage…
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Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice
Abstract: Skimmed tells the story of the first recorded identical Black quadruplets, born in 1946 to Annie Mae Fultz, a Black-Cherokee woman who lost her ability to hear and speak in childhood and Pete Fultz, a tenant farmer in North Carolina. Annie Mae’s white doctor named the sisters after his relatives then auctioned off the…