Anti-Sexual Harassment Laws in India: Problematising Caste(d), Postcolonial and Neoliberal Policies [Hardcover]

Through a deep dive into specific problem representations in the policymaking on anti- sexual harassment at workplaces (SHW) in India, this book makes broader sense of gendered, caste-based and colonial regimes of power. The author takes a poststructuralist feminist approach to illustrate how these policies disregard collective action and function as gendering and caste-ing practices. The book posits that Indias anti-SHW policies produce specific problems and subjects while neglecting certain other problem and subject formulations. The author offers guidelines for how diverse subjects must be given equal epistemic credibility to make the policy milieu intersectionally equitable. This book will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in the fields of Gender Studies, Law, Sociology, and Organizational Studies.

Chapter 1. What is the problem of sexual harassment at workplaces represented to be?.- Chapter 2. The problem of SHW as outraging of modesty: Subjects of honour.- Chapter 3. The problem of SHW as sex-based discrimination: Exclusion of intersectional subjects.- Chapter 4. SHW as a problem of employment relations: Subjects of fixed work and workplaces.- Chapter 5. Developmental geneaologies and alternative problematizations.- Chapter 6. Self-problematisation.

Anukriti Dixit is an advanced postdoctoral scholar and lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, University of Bern. She completed her PhD in public policy from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Her areas of interest include poststructuralist, intersectional, feminist, anti-caste and decolonial theories in public policy.

Dixit offers a riveting and comprehensive analysis of encounters with the policy and law on sexual harassment in the workplace in India. By asking how the problem of SHW is produced, she broadens the canvass of underslS