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X-WR-CALNAME:The History Department’s Symposium on Gender\, History\, and
  Sexuality Presents: "Gendered Political Spheres: Property Rights Litigati
 on and Democracy Activism in Post-1990 Nepal"
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DESCRIPTION:Featuring Beth Prosnitz\, PhD Student\n\nDepartment of Sociolog
 y\, The University of Texas at Austin\n\nThis presentation will focus on t
 he women’s property rights movements in the 1990s and 2000s in Nepal. Th
 rough an investigation of property rights litigation\, the paper shows how
  Nepal Supreme Court cases challenged dowry laws and laws that restricted 
 married women’s ability to inherit property from their fathers. Lawyers 
 filed these cases a critical time in Nepal’s political history: from 199
 0 to 2006\, Nepal\, a Hindu monarchy\, experienced both wide-spread democr
 acy activism and an armed conflict between state security forces and the C
 ommunist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M). In 2006\, the Nepal government sig
 ned a peace agreement with the CPN-M\, and in 2008\, when its first-ever c
 onstituent assembly was elected\, the Hindu monarchy ended. Existing narra
 tives of the democratic transition in Nepal treat women’s property right
 s movements as auxiliary to these larger democratic processes. However\, c
 urrent sociological theory suggests that women’s rights movements are bo
 th constrained and enabled by political spheres (Ray 1998)\, and can be un
 derstood as a “politics from below” (Charrad 2014)\, in which women st
 eer discourses and action on women’s rights. I examine how these Nepal S
 upreme Court cases were part of a “politics from below\,” that was cen
 tral to the democratic movement and the constitution of political spheres 
 in Nepal.\n\nBeth Prosnitz is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociolo
 gy at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary research interests ar
 e in the relationships between property rights\, citizenship\, and social 
 movements in South Asia. Beth earned her BA in Religion from Smith College
  and MA in International Affairs from the New School.
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LOCATION:Garrison Hall (GAR)\, 1.102
SUMMARY:The History Department’s Symposium on Gender\, History\, and Sexu
 ality Presents: "Gendered Political Spheres: Property Rights Litigation an
 d Democracy Activism in Post-1990 Nepal"
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/the_history_departments_sym
 posium_on_gender_history_and_sexuality_presents_gendered_political_spheres
 _property_rights_litigation_and_democracy_activism_in_post-1990_nepal
CATEGORIES:Academics
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