Saturday, May 30, 2020

Rukman Banka, Week 11

The Abducted Woman in the House

The author draws a line between the "rape culture" perpetrated by the Patriarchal nature of the Indian Society and is legitimized by both "immunity" and "impunity" and is not just a matter of lack of security and safety for women. The writer supports her claim by saying how the Indian Penal Code established that a married woman can never be raped, let alone other sexual violence. Various feminist discourses have come up such as the recommendations made by the Justice Verma Committee, which started to recognize numerous offences against the vulnerable community of women and the LGBT+ community. Yet, despite these progressive attempts, because of the patriarchal prejudice that lingers at the back of society at large, India as a country always has taken more steps backward than it has taken forward. 

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