ABSTRACT
In the much publicized visit of President Clinton to South Asia, the president stated he "could have danced all night" with the rural women he met in the Western Indian State of Rajasthan. There are three concerns through which the author addresses this issue. Firstly, he describes how the victim subject has become the dominant subject of international human rights, in particular, women's rights and why we need to transcend the victim subject for transnational reasons. Secondly, the author critiques the way in which feminist legal politics in India has bought into the victim subject, a critique which he believes is important to develop in terms of the broader post-colonial critique of Imperialism and the imperialist nature of certain kinds of western feminism. And finally, he proposes ways in which to transcend the victim-subject in law through exposing the kaleidoscopic range of women's multiple subjectivities and the implications this has for a progressive feminist legal politics.
