About the Book: Fearless Freedom
'Safety' for women in India is, more often than not, coded as curtailment of
autonomy. To be 'safe', women are told they must allow themselves to be kept
under constant surveillance. Their movement is restricted to specific spaces,
often homes and hostels. Extreme levels of control are exercised to confine
their mobility. But is freedom really incompatible with safety? In this
ground-breaking and radical book, Kavita Krishnan locates the personal and
political repercussions of erasing women from public spaces. She argues that
many real and violent threats to female autonomy are, in fact, hidden in plain
sight. Often challenging conventional wisdom, this is