Laws of Social Reproduction
European Research Council funded project analysing the regulation of women’s reproductive labour in India
Events
2021
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
Reframing the contemporary child marriage debate – Lessons from India
https://youtu.be/Am5G_hahAyM Recent legislative developments on child marriage in India come at a time when the national data shows declining prevalence …
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 …
Unfair and Unjust-The Economic Rights and Entitlements of Separated/ Divorced Women in India
ABSTRACT: The patriarchal Indian state has ensured that the economic rights and entitlements of separated women remain at a minimum. …
Sex work & Feminism in India -The vexed relationships
Feminist understandings and standpoints about ‘agency’ ‘consent’ and ‘voluntary entry into sex work’ remain fertile ground for discussions and debates …
Gender Identity, Sex Work and the Dissonance of Government in Pandemic Times
In thinking with the problematics of sex work, this paper reconsiders commensuration as the structuring relation between the rhetoric of …
Book Launch: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas – Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States
A stirring account of the experiences of migrant domestic workers, and what freedom, abuse, and power mean within a vast …
Book Launch: Gowri Vijayakumar – At risk: Indian sexual politics and the global AIDS crisis
Gowri Vijayakumar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research and teaching use feminist …
Book Launch: Selma James Our Time is Now: Sex, Race, Class and Caring for People and Planet
For over sixty years, Selma James has been organizing from the perspective of unwaged women who, with their biological and …
Class and Social Reproduction: Interrogating Time Use Data for Clues
The literature on agrarian change in India has largely employed class categories based upon data on land, assets and occupational …
Webinar on the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill
We have recently made a submission to the Ministry of Women and Child Development on the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, …
From Reproducing Labor Power to Reproducing our Struggle: A Strategy for a Revolutionary Feminism
Speaker: Professor Silvia Federici, Professor Emerita at Hofstra UniversityChair and Moderator: Professor Sanita Sen, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, …
Social reproduction as method: pandemic neoliberalism, and reproductive crises of work, life and death
June 2021 – Dr Alessandra Mezzadri is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS and holds degrees in Economics …
Universally Invisible: Domestic Workers in India
May 2021 – Avani Chokshi is an Advocate and a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. SEMINAR …
Marshall Plan for Moms: A Conversation with Reshma Saujani
April 2021 – Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code.
Care work without care workers: The vulnerability of India’s women community health volunteers
Jan 2021 How does volunteerism shape the experience of paid care workers in the state? Vrind Marwah discusses vulnerabilities and …
2020
Legalizing sex: sexual minorities, AIDS, and citizenship in India
August 2020 As part of …
Engaging with Dalit- Bahujan perspectives on work and labour in paid domestic work
December 2020Lotika Singha, University of Wolverhampton …
Surrogacy as Reproductive Labour – Shifting Registers of Recognition
11th December 2020 We approach …
India’s First National Time-Use Survey 2019: Critical Perspectives
November 2020 Women in India …
Troubling Gifts: Revisiting the Indian ART and Surrogacy Bills
October 2020 Speaker: Since the …
Paid Domestic Work as “Decent Work”: Inter-Disciplinary – Conversations in the Indian Context
18 – 20th August 2020 Visibility …
Street, Footpath, Gated Community: Masculinity, Pornography and the Erotics of Tradition and Modernity
July 2020 – Public Lecture by …
Labouring Dance, Labouring Performance: Interdisciplinary Conversations on Erotic Dancing in India
July 2020 Panel 1: Historicizing Bar/Erotic Dancing …
