Across Indian metropolises, large demonstrations protesting violence against women have become very frequent, marking the present as a significant moment for feminism. I use the term feminism metonymically, to signify the force activated in the name of justice, when women foreground their gender identity. This clarification is prompted by the resistance to these terms seen as Western, culturally different from the milieu here constituted by an active meld of economic and socio-political features. However, in the immense heterogeneity of the cities, markers such as region, caste, religion, etc, get marginalized, though definitely not erased. Impediments to any neat, progressive reading of the public assertions are many. Gender gets displaced when other contexts, which have produced us as women through differentiations, come into play unexpectedly. Breaking the hegemony of cultural imaginaries remains a work in process.

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印度中产阶级的都市女性主义：多个地点，相互冲突的声音

在整个印度大都市，抗议针对妇女的暴力行为的大型示威活动变得非常频繁，标志着现在是女权主义的重要时刻。我以转喻的方式使​​用女权主义这个词，来表示当女性突出她们的性别认同时，以正义的名义激活的力量。这种澄清是由于对这些被视为西方的术语的抵制，在文化上不同于这里由经济和社会政治特征的积极融合构成的环境。然而，在城市的巨大异质性中，地区、种姓、宗教等标志被边缘化，尽管绝对不会被抹去。任何整洁、渐进地阅读公共主张的障碍有很多。当通过差异使我们成为女性的其他背景出人意料地发挥作用时，性别就被取代了。