feminism
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‘All the great social justice movements have emphasised a love ethic’: bell hooks in her own words
bell hooks
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‘Smashing the Patriarchy’ argues for a new kind of feminism in India, away from older models
Saloni Sharma
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A new book surveys the different feminisms in India working to overcome everyday patriarchy
Sindhu Rajasekaran
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Novelist Shashi Deshpande on how to read (or rather, how not to read) the writing of women
Shashi Deshpande
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This book collects imagined and real stories about mistakes made during growing up
Japleen Pasricha
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How ‘Cinderella’ lost its original feminist edge in the hands of men writers
Alexander Sergeant, The Conversation
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What do allies write about when they write (poetry) about feminism?
Saikat Majumdar
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On Mother’s Day, a reminder that non-western feminisms are still invisible in global media
Vivetha Thambinathan, The Conversation
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Nawal El Saadawi’s intellectual life reflected eight decades of Arab society and culture
Amal Amireh, The Conversation
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Salma’s novel presents the lives of women in a Muslim village in Tamil Nadu dreaming of freedom
Salma
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Why books by social media influencers about feminism (or self-help?) seem so similar to one another
Rebecca Wray, The Conversation
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Lockdown musings: Ritu Menon reflects on the past and broods over the future of her publishing life
Ritu Menon
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Rizwana Tabassum (1992-2020): Free, fearless, young feminist journalist gone too soon
Meera Jatav Priyanka Kotamraju
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‘Why I became a Nazi’: Essays from 1934 highlight women’s role in the rise of Hitler
Sarah R Warren, The Conversation Daniel Maier-Katkin, The Conversation Nathan Stoltzfus, The Conversation
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Will the post-pandemic world be a feminist one? The story ‘Sultana’s Dream’ may provide a template
Lopa Ghosh
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Protests across India’s ‘Shaheen Baghs’ are part of a global fourth-wave feminist uprising
Alka Kurian, The Conversation
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UK’s Tradwife movement is pushing women to return to a life of domesticity – and make money off it
Catherine Rottenberg, The Conversation Shani Orgad, The Conversation
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‘The rapist is you’: Feminists sing Bengali version of Chilean piece to protest Modi’s Kolkata visit
Shoaib Daniyal
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What Bhisham Sahni’s ‘Madhavi’ tells us about female agency (or the lack of it) in the Mahabharata
Pratiti
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Shashi Deshpande: ‘Rape is an offshoot of the idea of power. Most women still remain powerless’
Shashi Deshpande