The Absence of Caste in India's Anti-Sexual Harassment Legislation

INDIA: ANTI-SEXUAL HARASSMENT LEGISLATION

2021

Anukriti DIXI, «Manufacturing Absences: The Absence of Caste in India's Anti-Sexual Harassment Legislation», Gendercampus, January 2021.

«This article illustrates a unique approach to poststructural policy analysis – studying the ‘problems’ declared in and through a public policy. The theoretical claim of this approach is that specifically stated ‘problems’ direct attention toward one particular aspect of a social phenomenon, while producing absences of certain others. Policy ‘problems’ draw boundaries around what is allowed to be said, by whom and in what context. I analyze one particular policy silence – the absence of discussions on caste – from the ‘problem’ representations of sexual harassment at workplaces (SHW) in India.»

 
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