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Women: Nation builders, missing from the nation’s books
An exploration of the path-breaking verdict delivered by the SC declaring “housewives as nation-builders”[1]. The author, an academic explores, academically and historically, how societies and nations have only imagined economies and valued production through narrow prisms while feminist scholars have spent decades challenging this hierarchy; the real challenge that the June 11 judgement throws is whether we are prepared for a substantive re-set and re-construct
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