Despite the broad experience, this space remains rather disunited. the feminist space in India is distinctive and builds upon a diversity of women’s groups, political party networks, feminist and HIV/AIDS-related nGos, nonfunded feminist and queer groups and individuals, democratic rights groups, eco-feminists, non-feminists, research institutes and universities. understanding of privilege to reshape the world has been the distinct contribution of the feminist movement along with the focus on the marginalised. the main achievements were the deconstruction of violence against women, questioning of male domination within the family, kinship, religion, media and the State, in addition to a series of legal reforms. Gender Studies Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-175008 Libris ID: p2lj0hj2m7h8x59n ISBN: 9781003003199 (electronic) OAI: oai:DiVA.The last 50 years of feminist activism in India has managed to challenge the 5,000 years of patriarchal order. Place, publisher, year, edition, pagesLondon: Routledge, 2021. Finally, in relation to knowledge production, Menon identifies the production and distribution of knowledge as one still dominated by American and Western European academy, which potentially cripples dialogues between postsocialist and postcolonial scholars.

This has been a vexed issue for Dalit feminism(s). Menon critiques the concept of intersectionality which congeals into non-recognition multiple axes of identity, seeing race as the primary oppression. In fact, this co-optation of feminist goals in nationalist neo-liberal agendas is a feature shared with many postsocialist economies. Over successive years, all homogenizing and patriarchal moves that accompany mainstream nationalism were subject to intense debate and scrutiny. Despite the mass presence of women in every kind of anti-imperialist resistance, feminist issues were not visible in the mainstream nationalist agenda, even well after independence in India.

This interview centres around three themes: a) anti-colonial and nationalist convergences and disjunctures b) the tensions between feminism and nationalism and inherent contradictions within Indian feminism and c) knowledge economies. 109-120 Chapter in book (Refereed) Abstract 2021 (English) In: Postcolonial and postsocialist dialogues: intersections, opacites, challenges in feminist theorizing and practice / Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, London: Routledge, 2021, Vol.

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