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Feminist jurisprudence and a Uniform Civil Code
Marriage, divorce, inheritance and other aspects of personal status are purely secular activities that should be synchronised with societal changes. . A Uniform Civil Code should be independent
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A Uniform Civil Code with the rules of just family law is to be framed. (File Photo)
The judgment of Justice Bradley of the US Supreme Court in Bradwell vs Illinois (1872) exemplifies the myth of patriarchal societies that women are the weaker vessel: “Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognised the wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and women. Man is, or should be, women’s protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life.” The US Supreme Court rectified its stand in Reed vs Reed (1971). Yet, in jurisdictions like India, patriarchy is still r
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A Hindutva Model of Uniform Civil Code May Make It Even Worse for Women
The hope of a unifying UCC as envisaged by the Delhi high court is absolutely at odds with the Hindutva narrative of âlove jihadâ, which seeks to disempower women. We do need gender justice, and we need it now.
The BJP s election manifesto nowhere described what the UCC would look like, except that the discourse that surrounded it, suggested that it would be a set of family laws covering marriage, divorce and custody of children. Photo: Khadija Yousaf/Unsplash, (CC BY-SA)
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It is a strange phenomenon that the votaries of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) are often great believers in the âlove jihadâ myth. That âlove jihadâ is an untruth, is surely known even to those who fulminate most angrily about it. What lies at the foundation of the âlove jihadâ lie is a fundamental discomfort with modernity. Endogamy is, of course, the backbone of sectarianism. Inter-faith