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Women everywhere — individually and collectively — have spoken out against subordination, inequality, discrimination, violence, wars and injustice breaking the culture of silence. Every culture has its own distinct traditions of resistance. In this chapter, I begin with a quick recap of a ‘her story’ of resistance resulting in the nation-wide opposition to the Mathura rape case judgement, which consolidated the women’s movement of the 1980s.1 The focus on three cases — the Mathura case in the 1980s, the Bhanwari Devi case in the 1990s and the Soni Sori case in 2010 — highlights the distinct features of the women’s movement in India and the challenges it has faced.
We cherish a Utopia where our granddaughters would live without fear and they would have freedom to love.
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Burte, A. (2014). Linking Traditions of Resistance. In: Alston, M. (eds) Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia. Gender, Development and Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137390578_10
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