Anitha, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-6918-3680 and Dhaliwal, S. (2019) South Asian feminisms in Britain: traversing gender, race, class and religion. Economic and Political Weekly, 54 (17). ISSN 0012-9976
Abstract
A distinctive South Asian feminist voice emerged in Britain out of the existing forms of self-organisation and resistance within minority communities, located at the intersection of gender, race and class. An outline is presented here of the nature and effects of four decades of activism, policy interventions, and practice by South Asian feminist groups in Britain. This activism is located within the context of government policy and statutory practice that has shifted from multiculturalism to multi-faithism, and highlights the implications for women’s and girls’ rights, and the costs to secular feminist provision, particularly in relation to combatting violence against women and girls. How the recent neo-liberal policies of austerity and shrinking welfare provision pose key ideological challenges for South Asian feminist organising is analysed.
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
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Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2024 10:22 |
Last Modified: | 14 Feb 2024 15:32 |
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