Misogynistic Perspective On Women's Rights

In the international legal arena, as well as in the domestic space, legal responses are producing more cabined and regulated sexual subjects and are reinforcing gender categories. Gender is re-inscribed as stable and normal. The international is not separate and apart from the domestic because the gendered, sexual and cultural dichotomies that permeate the narratives of nation-states and sovereignty are informed by the vocabularies of both.
These institutional maneuvers have become the outward manifestations of the notion that something is being done about women’s rights, that an important social justice project is being pursued with intent and perseverance. At the international level, what is emerging is the construction of a collective voice that affirms the sisterhood. Violence against women …show more content…
The researcher concludes by revisiting the case of the Delhi rape and the protests and responses it provoked, which appeared at one level to be a demand for women’s rights to bodily integrity and sexual autonomy. The Hindu sacred traditions do not in themselves, of course, create tragedies like the rape and mutilation of Jyoti. But at times they do reflect and perpetuate the misogynistic perspectives underlying the extreme objectification of women that facilitate such assaults. Those parts of the sacred tradition that contribute to such perspectives need to be recognized, critiqued, and rejected, not accorded the status of some divine norm for male behavior and attitudes. While the protests exemplified a shift away from the traditionalism in which gender has been encased, they also represented a shift in the direction of a neoliberal political rationality that is increasingly characterizing and shaping the terms of gender within the global context and international legal arena, thus,