The genderscapes of hate

Sexual violence against women in India has assumed alarming proportions. These incidents need to be seen as products of a genderscape of hate, stemming from a deep-seated prejudice against women rather than being theorized as a law and order issue or a problem of development. Such prejudice extends over the entire life course of women and the genderscapes of hate are the implicitly and explicitly violent lived spaces that women negotiate in their everyday lives. While extraordinary incidents generate debate, the ordinary and implicit everyday violence that underpin these are glossed over despite the dialectical relations between the two.