nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/4fa6f33229bcac0f DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250818s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/4fa6f33229bcac0f doi eng 342 23 Karwa, Surbhi Author aut Against Abusive Essentialism - Reflections on Multi-Institutional Abusive Feminism From South Asia Karwa, Surbhi Verfassungsblog 2025-08-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Dixon identifies two means of abusive feminism – formalism and descriptive representation – both of which have found currency in the South Asian context. The South Asian region has a long history of female leaders of states, but their rule demonstrates that no easy causations can be drawn between descriptive presence of women in positions of power and democracy. Women can be and are good and bad leaders just as men. The framework of abusive feminism can help us recognize the dynamic nature of authoritarian rule and take a contextual, multi-institutional, and intersectional approach in our responses. CC BY-SA 4.0 Abusive Feminism India Nepal Pakistan Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/abusive-feminism-south-asia/ raw object