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Exploring the unintentional production of seemingly feminist
outcomes In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for
women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10
percent of the country’s lawyers are female, but women in the
most prestigious firms are significantly represented both at entry
and partnership. Elite workspaces are notorious for being
unfriendly to new actors, so what allows for aberration in certain
workspaces? Drawing from observations and interviews with more than
130 elite professionals, Accidental Feminism examines how a range
of underlying mechanisms—gendered socialization and essentialism,
family structures and dynamics, and firm and regulatory
histories—afford certain professionals egalitarian outcomes that
are not available to their local and global peers. Juxtaposing
findings on the legal profession with those on elite consulting
firms, Swethaa Ballakrishnen reveals that parity arises not from a
commitment to create feminist organizations, but from structural
factors that incidentally come together to do gender differently.
Simultaneously, their research offers notes of caution: while
conditional convergence may create equality in ways that more
targeted endeavors fail to achieve, “accidental” developments
are hard to replicate, and are, in this case, buttressed by
embedded inequalities. Ballakrishnen examines whether gender parity
produced without institutional sanction should still be considered
feminist. In offering new ways to think about equality movements
and outcomes, Accidental Feminism forces readers to critically
consider the work of intention in progress narratives.
Exploring the unintentional production of seemingly feminist
outcomes In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for
women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10
percent of the country's lawyers are female, but women in the most
prestigious firms are significantly represented both at entry and
partnership. Elite workspaces are notorious for being unfriendly to
new actors, so what allows for aberration in certain workspaces?
Drawing from observations and interviews with more than 130 elite
professionals, Accidental Feminism examines how a range of
underlying mechanisms-gendered socialization and essentialism,
family structures and dynamics, and firm and regulatory
histories-afford certain professionals egalitarian outcomes that
are not available to their local and global peers. Juxtaposing
findings on the legal profession with those on elite consulting
firms, Swethaa Ballakrishnen reveals that parity arises not from a
commitment to create feminist organizations, but from structural
factors that incidentally come together to do gender differently.
Simultaneously, their research offers notes of caution: while
conditional convergence may create equality in ways that more
targeted endeavors fail to achieve, "accidental" developments are
hard to replicate, and are, in this case, buttressed by embedded
inequalities. Ballakrishnen examines whether gender parity produced
without institutional sanction should still be considered feminist.
In offering new ways to think about equality movements and
outcomes, Accidental Feminism forces readers to critically consider
the work of intention in progress narratives.
Taking its cue from theoretical and ideological calls to challenge
globalisation as a dynamic of homogenisation - and resistance - as
led from, and directed against, the Global North, this volume asks:
what can we see when we shift the lens beyond a North-South binary?
Based on empirical studies of 'frontier-zones' of legal
globalisation in India, Pakistan and Latin America, the book adopts
an original format. Framed as a relational dialogue between newer
as well as more prominent scholars within the field, from various
cores through to postcolonial academic peripheries, it questions
structural variables in the shadows of legal globalisation and how
we as scholars build a space for critique.
Taking its cue from theoretical and ideological calls to challenge
globalisation as a dynamic of homogenisation - and resistance - as
led from, and directed against, the Global North, this volume asks:
what can we see when we shift the lens beyond a North-South binary?
Based on empirical studies of 'frontier-zones' of legal
globalisation in India, Pakistan and Latin America, the book adopts
an original format. Framed as a relational dialogue between newer
as well as more prominent scholars within the field, from various
cores through to postcolonial academic peripheries, it questions
structural variables in the shadows of legal globalisation and how
we as scholars build a space for critique.
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