| From
Mathura to Manorama:
Resisting Violence Against Women in India |
| Despite
being fair to the law and judiciary, the book highlights the
inherent discrimination against women even in the framing of
laws…The five provocative chapters are an effort at raising
the consciousness among women for the right to life and to
enumerate the variety of ways in which the women's movements have
indeed gained vibrancy. |
| —The
Tribune; July
2007 |
| One of the most
important insights of this book is the insistence that the fact that
violence enjoys impunity from prosecution has to be analyzed through
the politics of location and identity. The essays make an important point
and argue that the many campaigns against violence discussed in the book
expand and reformulate the right to life. Indeed the authors invite us to
think through the category of life in the realm of juridical interpretation
and the everyday. |
| —Book Review,
October
2007 |
| The collective
forms of violence are spreading to many parts of the country, wherever
there are movements and struggles against the present model of development.
Women who become victims of such violence do not necessarily fall into the
State's definition of terrorist/extremist/Naxalite, but they have become
nonetheless, targets of direct State violence like never before.
From Mathura to Manorama is a must-read. |
| —Biblio,
May-June
2007 |
