Resisting the backlash: How conservative arguments on marital rape threaten feminist progress

A systematic, critical reading of the Union’s submissions in the Supreme Court’s pending case on the constitutionality of the marital rape exemption is also an exercise of resistance. By re-orienting the conversation of rape trials around gender-based violence, we could respond most effectively to the backlash against feminist struggles in our courts, and outside them.
Resisting the backlash: How conservative arguments on marital rape threaten feminist progress
Rohin Bhatt

The author is a lawyer practicing in Delhi and the author of The Urban Elite v. Union of India.

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