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What are the main features of the second wave of Women’s movement in the Indian context?

  • UPSC 2014
  • Social Movements in Modern India

The wave metaphor is borrowed from Western feminism, and Indian scholars such as Neera Desai and Maithreyi Krishnaraj periodise the movement by its own history. Applied to India, the first wave covers nineteenth-century social reform and the nationalist mobilisation; the second wave is the autonomous women's movement of the mid-1970s and 1980s, whose distinguishing mark…

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  • Autonomy from party, state and male leadership
  • Patriarchy as the analytical centre
  • Violence and the body as the defining issues
  • Law-centred strategy and new knowledge
  • Links with livelihood and ecology
  • Internal critique, and the wave's exhaustion
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