Category: Feminism
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Ranganayakamma feminist-Marxist writer: Biography and Books
Ranganayakamma is a famous Telugu Feminist-Marxist novelist and short story writer. She has penned about 15 novels and 70 stories to date. She also wrote many essays. She is very well-known for her version of Ramayana that she wrote in Telugu. She has been writing since 1955. Her stories emphasize the equality of women and…
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Pratham Pratishruti of Ashapurna Devi: A Feminist’s Representation
Ashapurna Devi, a prominent Bengali novelist, born in 1909, in the colonial India which just got jolted by the wave of enlightenment. All of her writings focused on the existing gender discrimination and the emergence and evolution of middle-class Bengali women-their oppression, position, consciousness and conscientiousness, inspirations and of course their fight. She traces how…
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Dorothy Edith Smith: History & Feminist theory
Going through the pages of history explains and gives a brief story of how kings won over other. more stories explain kings as a conqueror, more than those in which tells queen as winners; the queen was not there in even the stories as winners. Then comes the trend changer: the queen who fought bravely…
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Dalit Women Talk Differently – A Critique of Difference and Towards a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position (Summary)
DALIT WOMEN TALK DIFFERENTLY –A Critique of ‘Difference’ and Towards a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position There has always been a dichotomy between the western feminist and that of the Indian feminist thought context, this is partly because of the different situations and consequences of the particular space and time which shifts from one period…
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When did fighting for equality became an overreaction?
“Hype Of Feminism?” Back in school days, I was not even aware of something called Feminism. Neither any of my friends did, However, when I joined a feminist organization as an intern, I was surprised. Not because I got to know something different but due to the fact that anything so fundamental needs to be…