[1] (Indian Penal Code, s 375).

[2] Padmakshi Sharma, Plea To Criminalise Marital Rape Livelaw (16 Jan 2023).

[3] Jejeebhoy, S. J., K. G. Santhya and R. Acharya, Health and social consequences of marital violence: A synthesis of evidence from India New Delhi: Population Council and UNFPA (2010).

[4] Ministry of Health & Family Welfare National Family Health Survey (MFHS-5) (2019-2021) <https://main.mohfw.gov.in/sites/default/files/NFHS-5_Phase-II_0.pdf> accessed on March 17, 2023.

[5] Id.

[6] Rosemarie Tong, Feminist Thought: A more comprehensive introduction (2013).

[7] Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics 1792).

[8] John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (Longmans 1869).

[9] Id (n6).

[10] Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (W. W. Norton 1963).

[11] Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949).

[12] Id (n6).

[13] Elena Loizidou, The Trouble with Rape: Gender Matters and Legal `Transformations'. Feminist Legal Studies 7, 275–297 (1999).

[14] Saumya Uma, South Asian feminist engagements with law: Some explorations in the context of violence against women Jindal Global Law Review 10, 197–221 (2019).

[15] Shoumik Hassin, ‘Rape is crime of power used to control women’ BDDNews24 (20 May 2017).

[16] Nivedita Menon, Seeing Like a Feminist (Penguin India 2012).

[17] Srimati Basu, Sexual Property: Staging Rape and Marriage in Indian Law and Feminist Theory, Feminist Studies , (Spring 2011) pp. 185-211.

[18] SCC OnLine Guj 732, [128] 65.

[19] Zoya Hussain, Indian Legislature's Stand About Marital Rape Indiatimes (Jul 21, 2022).

[20] Catherine Mackinnon, ‘Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence’, (1983) 8 Signs 635-658.

[21] (Indian Penal Code, s 376A).

[22] Payal Gwalani, Men’s rights activists threaten hunger strike against marital rape PIL in SC, HindustanTimes (Feb 27, 2023).

[23] Robin West ‘Jurisprudence and Gender’ (1988) 55 University of Chicago Law Review 1.

[24] Andrea Dworkin, Pornography : men possessing women (Women's Press, London, 1981).

[25] Kristen Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism (2018).

[26] Iris Young, Justice and the politics of difference (1990).

[27] Raveena Rao Kallakuru , Criminalisation of Marital Rape in India (2018).