The study shall analyze the intersection of youth led movements and feminist movements that have emerged in India since the last decade. Focusing on predominant feminist movements and campaigns in the Indian context, the study shall explore the commonalities across them in terms of their mobilization, methods of protest and their goals. With their sites of mobilization spanning both online and offline spaces, these movements have had significant impact on the public discourse on women’s rights and bodily autonomy, and systemic inequality and discrimination against women in public spaces. The shift to the digital age has significantly facilitated the questioning of the normative while a norm changing behavior has catalyzed old age norm consolidations in newer ways. The abundant use of the social media and networking sites as repositories and propellers of leadership mobilization to build onto these movements has given rise to the ‘feminist Internet’. The study argues that we are currently seeing the real-time development of a wave of young feminist movements in India that is distinct in its methods and spaces of mobilization, protest strategies and membership and has rapidly grown from feminism ‘lite’ into one that is highly political and conceptually nuanced in the face of significant backlash from oppositional forces as well as potential supporters.

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Reclaiming Leadership in the Public Sphere: The Rise of Intersectional Feminism and the Indian Political Discourse

  • Ghazala Yasmin

摘要

The study shall analyze the intersection of youth led movements and feminist movements that have emerged in India since the last decade. Focusing on predominant feminist movements and campaigns in the Indian context, the study shall explore the commonalities across them in terms of their mobilization, methods of protest and their goals. With their sites of mobilization spanning both online and offline spaces, these movements have had significant impact on the public discourse on women’s rights and bodily autonomy, and systemic inequality and discrimination against women in public spaces. The shift to the digital age has significantly facilitated the questioning of the normative while a norm changing behavior has catalyzed old age norm consolidations in newer ways. The abundant use of the social media and networking sites as repositories and propellers of leadership mobilization to build onto these movements has given rise to the ‘feminist Internet’. The study argues that we are currently seeing the real-time development of a wave of young feminist movements in India that is distinct in its methods and spaces of mobilization, protest strategies and membership and has rapidly grown from feminism ‘lite’ into one that is highly political and conceptually nuanced in the face of significant backlash from oppositional forces as well as potential supporters.