feminism
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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
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‘The rapist is you’: A powerful feminist protest performance on the streets of Chile
Scroll Staff
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How Guru Nanak criticised regressive customs imposed upon women of all religions
Nicky-Guninder Kaur Sing
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Many single working women in India are holding men to higher standards
Diksha Madhok, qz.com
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‘Whenever we speak, eyes seem to roll’: Sara Ahmed in her book on being a ‘feminist killjoy’
Sara Ahmed
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Why feminist Simone de Beauvoir’s critique of the ‘strong woman image’ stands true even today
Kate Kirkpatrick, Aeon.com
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Watch: Ms Monopoly takes on a male board game bastion. The internet seems divided
Scroll Staff
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Even if companies use feminism as a marketing tool, it isn’t ‘capitalism’s handmaiden’
Lauren McCarthy and Kate Grosser, The Conversation
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Shulamith Firestone: The radical feminist who wanted to abolish pregnancy remains relevant
Victoria Margree, The Conversation
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A study shows the surprising similarities in the way royal women once exercised power
Laura Spinney, Aeon
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How males were created: A Bengali feminist wrote this wicked fable nearly a hundred years ago
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
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‘The obduracy of women’: Why J Devika translated the works of K Saraswathi Amma from Malayalam
J Devika
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These short stories explore the diversities of different feminisms, with the hijab as a symbol
Suhasini Patni
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‘My need to speak openly won out’: Why this author wrote a book on being a ‘besharam’ Indian woman
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Sour taste: What family halls in restaurants tell us about Pakistan’s gender and class equations
Dur e Aziz Amna
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Nandita Das: How did we get to this point where women define themselves by how they look?
Nandita Das
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Womansplaining the Aurat March: Dear men, here’s why Pakistan’s women are asserting their rights
Rimmel Mohydin
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Dye another day: Why more and more Indian women are embracing their grey hair
Meera Ganapathi
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Meet Colette: writer, feminist, performer, and gender-fluid #MeToo trailblazer
Diana Holmes, The Conversation