Research Catalog

Title

Undoing impunity : speech after sexual violence / V. Geetha.

Author

Kītā, Va.

Publication

New Delhi : Zubaan, 2016.

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Additional Authors

International Development Research Centre (Canada), sponsoring body.

Description

xxxi, 305 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity--perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by fearless, just, and compassionate speech--both in courts of justice and outside of them. Those who speak out not only advance a politics of accountability, but also an ethics of recognition, suffering, and hurt.Undoing Impunity explores the contours of the politics and ethics pertaining to sexual violence in contemporary South Asian communities. Using a historical lens, V. Geetha closely examines explicitly feminist responses from the region and, drawing from them, suggests that sexual violence and the impunity it claims for itself are best understood in relation to cultural attitudes towards sexuality. In all, Undoing Impunity is an important and timely look at the social, psychological, and legal conditions that allow perpetrators to act without fear of responsibility or guilt. " -- Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Zubaan series on sexual violence and impunity in South Asia

Uniform Title

Zubaan series on sexual violence and impunity in South Asia.

Subject

• Sexual Violence and Impunity Project
• Sex crimes > South Asia
• Sex crimes
• Sex Offenses
• Asia, Western
• South Asia

Note

• "IDRC/CRDI."
• Contributed articles.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Prologue: The Recognition of Suffering -- Part I -- 1.Speaking about Sexual Violence -- 2.Sexual Violence, Sexual Politics and the Question of History -- 3.Speaking of Rape in Late Colonial India -- 4.`Speakable' Justice and `Unspeakable' Violence in the Nation-to-be -- Part II -- 5.Sexual Violence and the New Nation: The Limits to Speech -- 6.Challenging Class and State: The Sexual Politics of Armed Resistance -- 7.Resurgent Nationalism, State Violence and Sexual Assault -- 8.Challenging Sexual Violence: The Making of Resistance Politics -- 9.Feminist Perspectives on Sexual Violence -- 10.Redressing Sexual Violence: Feminist Engagements with Public and Legal Spaces -- 11.Feminist Dilemmas: Punitive Rape in Caste Society -- 12.After Such Violence: Feminism confronts the Hindu Right -- 13.A Wounded Republic: Disciplining Our Borders -- Part III -- 14.Everyday Lives and Exceptional Violence -- In Place of a Conclusion: Towards a Recognition of Suffering.

ISBN

• 9789384757779
• 9384757772

LCCN

2016330653

OCLC

• ocn921863827
• 921863827
• SCSB-8786267

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library