A. Chatterjee’s scientific contributions

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Men doing feminism: Epistemic and political uncertainties
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January 2016

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Economic and Political Weekly

A. Chatterjee

The 16 May 2015 issue of the EPW has a special section which refreshingly argues that men can be feminists and they can contribute to feminist knowledge when they make "care" an intellectual virtue and "care epistemology" their choicest mode. This affirmation is broached through an autobiographical mapping of each of the author's "towards feminism" journey. But the articles seem to have violated the same "care-epistemic" principles they had set for themselves. This review questions care epistemology's pertinence to the agenda in question. It points out that autobiography, ethnography and care could never accompany each other well.

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... IFJP's vision to be reflexive and question rather than assume both privilege and marginality makes it imperative that the dilemmas and challenges of men doing feminism be theorised. There have been efforts in the Indian context but these have been more in the form of initial conversations than sustained theorisations (CHOWDHURY, BASET, 2015;SIRCAR, 2015;CHATTERJEE, 2016). Stephen Heath's problematisation of this desire in (some) men to be a subject of feminism/or be a feminist despite being agents/representatives/carriers of the patriarchal power might be a relevant point to start these conversations with (HEATH, 2001). ...

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Rewriting Charu Khurana and Others v. Union of India and Others for the Indian Feminist Judgments Project: Some Reflections
Men doing feminism: Epistemic and political uncertainties
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  • January 2016

Economic and Political Weekly

A. Chatterjee