Public Discourses on Gender, Modernity, and Assaults on Women in India

Jyothsna Latha Belliappa

doi:10.1057/9781137398758_11

Public Discourses on Gender, Modernity, and Assaults on Women in India

Jyothsna Latha Belliappa

Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bengaluru

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A series of sexual and physical assaults on women in India throughout 2012, culminating in the brutal gang rape of a young woman in New Delhi, has given rise to vociferous debates across India on the issue of women’s safety in the public sphere. Reactions to cases of sexual assault in India usually run along two lines. On the one hand, there are demands for stricter laws against sexual assault and for the creation of safe spaces for women. On the other hand, the victim’s dress and behaviour are scrutinized, and women are cautioned to behave with greater decorum and discretion in public and encouraged to police their own behaviour. The second type of reaction is significant for the analysis in this chapter.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	137-150
Number of pages	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398758_11
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Name	Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
ISSN (Print)	2634-6397
ISSN (Electronic)	2634-6400

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Communication
Development
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Linguistics and Language

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