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Interview with Flavia Agnes
Global Feminisms Project
2003-08-17
Abstract: Flavia Agnes is a women’s rights lawyer and writer and has been actively involved in the women’s movement for the last two decades. She has written extensively on issues of domestic violence, feminist jurisprudence and minority rights. Her books are widely acclaimed and are popular among advocates, paralegal workers, law students and women who have been victims of domestic violence. Currently she co-ordinates the legal centre of MAJLIS and is also engaged in her doctoral research on Property Rights of Married Women with the National Law School of India
Series/Report no.:Global Feminisms India Site Interview
Subject(s):global, feminism, feminists, intersectionality, cross-cultural, India, Indian Feminists
Description: The 'Global Feminisms Project' is a collaborative international project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements and academic women's studies in China, India, Poland, and the United States. We are examining the histories of feminism in local contexts by collecting ten videotaped oral histories of women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in each country. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the US site research team. Our international collaborators are: SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, India; Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, Poland; China Women's University in Beijing, China; and Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. DIRECTIONS FOR VIEWING THE GLOBAL FEMINISMS INTERVIEWS: Users may launch QuickTime Player by clicking on the “View/Open” link associated with the MPEG, or video, file under the “Files in This Item” heading. Due to large file size, the video may take up to ten minutes to load. If the picture breaks up or does not flow freely, play the video for a minute, pause it for a minute, and then play again.
