Flavia Agnes is an Indian women's rights lawyer with expertise in marital, divorce, and property law.
21 Facts About Flavia Agnes
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Flavia Agnes has published articles in the journals Subaltern Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, and Manushi.
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Flavia Agnes writes on themes of minorities and law, gender and law, law in the context of women's movements, and on issues of domestic violence, feminist jurisprudence, and minority rights.
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Flavia Agnes grew up in Mangalore, Karnataka, where she lived with her maternal aunt.
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Flavia Agnes's parents lived in Aden, Aden Colony with her four sisters and a brother, who passed away at an early age.
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Flavia Agnes studied in a Kannada-medium school until the 10th grade.
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Flavia Agnes returned to Mangalore with her mother and sisters when she was 20.
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Flavia Agnes's marriage was a "wreck" and she was mentally and physically abused.
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In 1980, Flavia Agnes became involved with a women's movement in Mumbai and with the support of the women in the group, she ended her marriage after 13 years.
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Flavia Agnes had three children with her husband, and following her divorce, she took custody of her two daughters and sent them to a boarding school.
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Flavia Agnes sold her jewellery to buy a small house in Borivali, Mumbai.
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The church provided an outlet for Flavia Agnes to become an activist.
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Flavia Agnes then completed an LLB in 1988 and began to practice law at the Mumbai High Court.
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Flavia Agnes later completed her LLM from Mumbai University in 1992.
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Flavia Agnes received an MPhil from National Law School of India University, Bangalore in 1997.
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Flavia Agnes began working in the field of women in law in the 1980s, at the beginning of the second phase of the women's movement, and since 1988, Flavia Agnes has been a practicing lawyer at the Mumbai High Court.
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Flavia Agnes advises the government on law implementation and currently advises the Ministry of Women and Child Development in Maharashtra.
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Flavia Agnes's goal is to solve women's inequality and impoverishment within the Indian economic structure, especially regarding property ownership.
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Flavia Agnes acknowledges that some Hindu women were not allowed any property, and other women were allowed a small amount in the pre-colonial and civil time in India under the British law.
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Flavia Agnes is a member of the visiting faculty at National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, Hyderabad and Jindal Global Law School.
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Flavia Agnes is a part of the Global Feminisms Project, an archive created in 2002 to explore women scholars and activists around the world.