@article{2023:herklotz:feminist_c,
title = {Feminist Constitutional Activism in India},
year = {2023},
note = {This paper assesses feminist constitutional activism in India, i.e.
feminist engagements with the Constitution with the aim of broadening
women's rights. To this end, the paper looks at several generations of
feminist activists. It shows how feminists impacted the process of
constitution-making and how they realised women's constitutional
rights by holding the legislature accountable to the Constitution and
demanding that the judiciary declare laws unconstitutional if they
violated women's fundamental rights. The paper places a particular
focus on the constitutionally enshrined conflict between religious
freedom and women's rights—a conflict that plays out in a specific
way in many countries of the Global South and that confronts feminist
activists with challenges that their counterparts in the Global North
might not face in the same way.},
journal = {VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee},
pages = {153--174},
author = {Herklotz, Tanja},
volume = {56},
number = {1}
}