This article analyzes the protests and
discourse on violence against women that
was triggered by the 2012 case of the
'Delhi rape'. In particular, the author
examines the shift away from traditional
gender norms through increased demand for
women's rights to bodily integrity and
sexual autonomy. She also notes a
simultaneous shift toward a neoliberal
political rationality that increasingly
characterizes the conception of gender
within the global context and
international legal arena. Although the
protests themselves were political in
nature, they also reflected the demands of