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Ghai, Anita. "Disabled Women: An Excluded Agenda of Indian Feminism." Hypatia 17, no. 3 (2002): 49–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2002.tb00941.x.

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My purpose in this essay is to locate disabled women within the women's movement as well as the disability movement in India. While foregrounding the existential realities for disabled women in the Indian scene, I underscore the reasons for their absence from the agenda of Indian feminism. I conclude by reflecting on the possibilities of inclusion within Indian feminist thought.
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Tripathi Sharma, Dr Shreeja. "Towards a ‘Vedic Feminine Renaissance’." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 11 (November 28, 2020): 216–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i11.10872.

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The sense of justice and equity towards women is considered among the best indicators that reflect the socio-cultural development of a civilisation. The position and status of women, as reflected in literature naturally serves as a test to gauge the sensibilities and cultivation of each associated age. It is matter of general agreement that the feminine ideals of womanhood during the early Vedic age remain exalted and exemplary. The Vedic narratives elevate the ephemeral spirit of womanhood, which progressively lost its sheen in successive stages. While the contemporary feminine polemics consistently unravel unhackneyed theories, generic in nature, we are lacking in such an orientation which targets specifics of local, regional and traditional culture. Feminists in India are no exception, and have largely adopted the theories of Feminism emanating from the discourse of the West. The Indian Vedic repository contains instances which testify the epitome of womanhood at its best. However, the Indian ethos of feminism imbedded firmly in the Vedic roots remain largely inaccessible in the contemporary feministic theory. The need for adapting ‘global feminism’ to the ‘classical Indian taste’ remains an unobserved concern. This paper explores the possibilities inherent in the study of classical mythic literature and their potential for stimulating ‘local theories’ of feminism in India through a study of selected feminine ideals present in the early Vedic narratives. Can study of ancient Vedic literature inspire a reawakening in Indian feminism, just as the study of classical Greek literature did for the West during Renaissance in Europe - is a question, this paper seeks to address.
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Arya, Sunaina. "Dalit or Brahmanical Patriarchy? Rethinking Indian Feminism." CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion 1, no. 1 (February 14, 2020): 217–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.26812/caste.v1i1.54.

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The present paper argues that the conceptualisation of notions like ‘dalit’ or ‘intracaste’ or ‘multiple’ patriarchies results from a misunderstanding of the concept brahmanical patriarchy. The category ‘dalit patriarchy’ is gaining popularity in academic and political discourse of contemporary India. It is introduced by Gopal Guru in his seminal essay ‘Dalit Women Talk Differently’ only to challenge patriarchal practices within ‘lower’ caste groups. But mainstream feminists of India attempted to propagate and proliferate this vague concept. They argue that dalit men, as a part of their exploitation by ‘upper’ caste, also face taunts regarding their masculinity which results in their aggressive behaviour on dalit women; which has been called as ‘dalit patriarchy’. The paper argues that conceptualisation of such notions yields no advancement in our endeavours toward a gender-just society, rather it is misleading. Evaluating articulations in mainstream Indian feminism, we need to think through: what effect does this have on our feminist struggle? what is at stake? what possibly can be a resolution? Thus, by exposing flaws about ‘dalit patriarchy’—including a detailed discussion on the empirical, theoretical, and logical shortcomings—this paper seeks to initiate a theoretical rethinking of feminist as well as dalit scholarship, with employment of analytical, hermeneutical and critical methods.
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Bhabad, P. R. "Native Feminism in the Globalized Indian English Novel." Feminist Research 1, no. 1 (December 29, 2017): 37–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.21523/gcj2.17010105.

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Fictional medium is really very useful to know reality of society. Literature and visual art used realistically to depict several methods in which perfect description of feminism is the aim. The novel is depiction of day to day life, custom and the woman is portrayed as the key figure of Indian families and at the same time, she has been projected as the subject of suffering domestic slavery and suppression. Native feminism in India is not as aggressive as feminism in the West. Patriarchy is another name of native feminism reflected in the novels; through self-realization, it is expected that the woman can emerge as a new woman. The social realist writers have been very much interested in recording social changes and the status of women. Industrialization, urbanization and globalization have brought considerable changes in social life and status of women in India. Position of educated women is quite better than illiterate but gender discrimination still persists. To face all hurdles of their life the next generation women very boldly and intelligently achieve their aims to get their identity.
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Poonacha, Veena. "Scripting Women’s Studies: Neera Desai on Feminism, Feminist Movements and Struggles." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 25, no. 2 (May 20, 2018): 281–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971521518765529.

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Neera Desai’s pioneering effort to introduce women’s studies into the university system was born out of her commitment to women’s equality. She visualized women’s studies as a movement within the academia to challenge the theoretical rationale for oppressive socio-economic and political institutions and structures. Seeking to excavate the intellectual and ideological moorings of this remarkable woman, this paper reviews her last major work, titled, Feminism as Experience: Thoughts and Narratives (2006). The exploration reveals not only her academic interest in the study of movements, but also her intimate connect with the groundswells of feminist politics in India for over six decades. Against this rich and varied history of twentieth century Indian women’s movement in Western India, Neera Desai, presents the oral histories of women, who were in the forefront of the struggle. This paper, then examines her earlier work, entitled The Social Construction of Feminist Consciousness: A Study of Ideology and Self Awareness among Women Leader (1992) to uncover the changing frames of her research.
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Dr. Shriya Goyal, Ms Bharti,. "Women Writers in India: Tracing Feminism." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 2 (February 10, 2021): 5493–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i2.2965.

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From pre-Independence period to the contemporary times, women’s voice is gradually being heard and gaining momentum. It is hoped as well as expected that women would soon become a prominent voice making a mark in the society. Their point of view along with their decision making authority will have a definite and constructive impact on the society. This can be inferred from the literature by various Indian women writers such as Pandita Ramabai, Ismat Chughtai, Kamala Das and Shashi Deshpande. As we move from one decade to another entering the 21st century, we observe how women have been able to break the cocoon of domesticity, marking their presence in various socio-political spheres which have been usually dominated by men. Women have sought their space for expression and voicing opinion through literature. Depicting the oppression and discrimination faced in the patriarchal setup of Indian society, the women writers have pointed at the need for equality in practice as well as representation. The article will provide a discussion regarding Feminism in India, analysing each period or phase along with a women writer.
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Atwal, Jyoti. "Embodiment of Untouchability: Cinematic Representations of the “Low” Caste Women in India." Open Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 735–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0066.

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Abstract Ironically, feudal relations and embedded caste based gender exploitation remained intact in a free and democratic India in the post-1947 period. I argue that subaltern is not a static category in India. This article takes up three different kinds of genre/representations of “low” caste women in Indian cinema to underline the significance of evolving new methodologies to understand Black (“low” caste) feminism in India. In terms of national significance, Acchyut Kanya represents the ambitious liberal reformist State that saw its culmination in the constitution of India where inclusion and equality were promised to all. The movie Ankur represents the failure of the state to live up to the postcolonial promise of equality and development for all. The third movie, Bandit Queen represents feminine anger of the violated body of a “low” caste woman in rural India. From a dacoit, Phoolan transforms into a constitutionalist to speak about social justice. This indicates faith in Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s India and in the struggle for legal rights rather than armed insurrection. The main challenge of writing “low” caste women’s histories is that in the Indian feminist circles, the discourse slides into salvaging the pain rather than exploring and studying anger.
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Koolwal, Priti. "Feminism in Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence and Anita Desai's Cry, the Peacock: A Comparative Study." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 5 (May 28, 2021): 154–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i5.11055.

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Feminism is a rapidly developing critical ideology of great promise. In the words of M.K. Bhatnagar, "Feminism in the Indian context is a by product of western liberalism in general and feminist thoughts in particular". With the social and cultural change in post independence India, women find themselves standing at the cross-roads. On one hand it is the consciousness of a changed time and on the other, the socio-cultural modes and values that have given them defined role towards themselves, have led to the fragmentation of the very psyche of these women. Caught between two worlds, they need to define themselves, their place in society and their relationship with surroundings. Anita Desai and Shashi Deshpande have constantly sought to come to grips with these problems of Indian womanhood and vividly and realistically portrayed the 'women question' and 'feministic traits' in their novels. If comparative study is the study of literature across national, political and linguistic boundaries, feminism is the comparative work across boundaries of gender and culture. The main concern of this paper is to present a comparative study of the note of feminism in the best words of both these feministic writers, i.e. Anita Desai's Cry, The Peacock and Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence.
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Nijhawan, Shobna. "At the Margins of Empire: Feminist-Nationalist Configurations of Burmese Society in the Hindi Public (1917–1920)." Journal of Asian Studies 71, no. 4 (September 21, 2012): 1013–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911812001192.

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Embedded in early twentieth-century discourses on modernity, feminism, and nationalism, and written for the newly emerging woman reader, Rameshwari Nehru's Hindi account of Burmese women was an experiment in ethnographic writing. Along with the speeches she delivered in Burma (all reprinted in the Hindi women's periodical Stri Darpan), she also used the ethnography to call for the social and political mobilization of Burmese and Indian women. Nehru revisited the relationship between India and Burma in the gendered and elite terms of Indian (mostly Hindu) nationalism and social feminism. In describing a supposed intact social structure found in Burma, her motive was to portray a woman subject that was not modeled on prevalent conceptions of “the Western woman,” but that originated in the neighborhood of the colonial present. In the process, as this paper argues, Nehru appropriated colonial discourses on Indian and Burmese womanhood, while she also absorbed Burma into her vision of Indian nationhood and imagined sisterhood.
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Hariharasudan, A., and S. Robert Gnanamony. "Feministic Analysis of Arundhati Roy's Postmodern Indian Fiction: The God of Small Things." GATR Global Journal of Business and Social Science Review (GJBSSR) Vol.5(3) Jul-Sep 2017 5, no. 3 (June 23, 2017): 159–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.35609/gjbssr.2017.5.3(17).

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Objective - The aim of the research is to identify the feminist strains in the postmodern Indian Fiction The God of Small Things (TGST). The researcher has planned to investigate the text systematically for seeking feministic values. Methodology/Technique - The study reviews previous literature. Findings - Gender bias and feminism are relevant themes explored by postmodernists. Arundhati Roy portrays the predicament of women through her female characters belonging to three generations in this novel. In the novel, a sense of antagonism and division also infuse the difference senses of identity among the different generation of women. It also generates a line of the clash between the older and the younger generation. Family and political customs play a key role in disadvantaging women. Social constrains are so built up as to sanctify the persecution of women. This is because, in most of the civilizations, social structures are basically patriarchal. Arundhati's novel challenges this position, though her avowed feminist stance. Novelty - Women across the globe worldwide, nationwide, regionally and may be capable of holding the influential note of feminism and being capable of deconstructing a constructive implication of their own femaleness and womanhood after reading this paper. Type of Paper: Review Keywords: Feminism; Gender Bias; Patriarchal; Postmodernism; Downtrodden. JEL Classification: B54, H83.
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Ansari, Rushina. "The Complexities of Empowering Rural Indian Women (A story of Indian Panchayats)." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21007.

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In the following research I strive to focus on the various aspects that influence the‘empowerment’ issue of rural Indian women. I refer to two governmental reforms inparticular - the historic ‘Women’s Reservation Bill’ (WRB) which insists on a onethird participation of women at the lower tier of political structure in India called thePanchayats and the controversial ‘Two Child Norm’ (TCN) which restricts politicalparticipation of both men and women Panchayat candidates if the couple chooses tohave more that two children (Buch, 2005).I spread my research over a variety of social actors relevant to this issue and useKabeer’s (1999) three-dimensional model of dissecting empowerment that analyzesthe term at an intrinsic level. It is revealed through this research and analysis that inspite of the government’s efforts through the WRB reform of providing resources tothe rural women toward economic and social empowerment through politicalparticipation, the power terrains of caste, culture and religion withhold their agency.On the other hand, the tainted TCN stipulation, which in some cases has proveddetrimental to women, has also shown signs of being helpful in determining theintrinsic aspect of empowerment like gaining a voice in terms of reproductive rights.Such findings however bring into focus the government’s lack of commitment andforesight in designing such reforms and hence this research helps us locate the sites ofdevelopment to make the term ‘empowerment’ more meaningful.
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Gangopadhyay, Monalisa. "Hindutva Meets Globalization: The Impact on Hindu Urban Media Women." FIU Digital Commons, 2010. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/305.

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This study examines the impact of globalization and religious nationalism on the personal and professional lives of urban Hindu middle class media women. The research demonstrates how newly strengthened forces of globalization and Hindutva shape Indian womanhood. The research rests on various data that reveal how Indian women interpret and negotiate constructed identities. The study seeks to give voice to the objectified by scrutinizing and challenging the stereotypical modern faces of Indian womanhood seen in the narratives of globalization and Hindutva. Feminist open-ended interviewing was conducted in English and Hindi in New Delhi, the capital of India, with 23 Hindu women, employed by electronic and print media corporations. Accumulated data were analyzed and interpreted using feminist critical discourse analysis. Findings from the study indicate that while the Indian middle class women have embraced professional opportunities presented by globalization, they remain circumscribed by mutating gender politics. The research also finds that as academic and professional progress empower the women within their homes, their public lives have become fraught with increasing gender violence and decreasing recourse to justice. Therefore, women accept the power stratification of their lives as being dependent on spatial and temporal distinctions, and have learnt to engage and strategize with the public environment for physical safety and personal-professional progress. While the media women see systemic masculine domination as being symbiotic with tenets of religious nationalism, they exhibit an unquestioned embracing of capitalism/globalization as the means of empowerment. My research also strongly indicates the importance of the media’s role in shaping gender dynamics in a global context. In conclusion, my research shows the mediawomen’s immense agency in pursuing academic and professional careers while being aware of deeply ingrained gender roles through their strong commitment towards their families. The findings of this study contribute to the literature on Third World nationalism, urban globalization and understandings of reworked-renewed masculine domination. Finally, the study also engages with recent scholarship on the Indian middle class (See Nanda 2010; Shenoy 2009; Lukose 2005; and Radhakrishnan 2006) while simultaneously addressing the notions of privilege and disengagement levied at the middle class woman, a symbiosis of idealization and imprisonment.
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Phillips, Crystal H. "Theorizing Aboriginal feminisms." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Women's Studies, c2012, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3120.

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Increasingly, Aboriginal women engage with feminist theory and forms of activism to carve their own space and lay a foundation for an Aboriginal feminism. I compile prominent writings of female Aboriginal authors to identify emerging theoretical strains that centre on decolonization as both theory and methodology. Aboriginal women position decolonization strategies against the intersectionality of race and sex oppression within a colonial context, which they term patriarchal colonialism. They challenge forms of patriarchal colonialism that masquerade as Aboriginal tradition and function to silence and exclude Aboriginal women from sovereignty and leadership spheres. By recalling and reclaiming the pre-colonial Aboriginal principle of egalitarianism, which included women within these spheres, they are positioned to create a hybrid feminism that locates egalitarianism within a contemporary and relevant context by combining it with human rights. In this way, Aboriginal feminism balances culture and tradition with principles of individual and collective rights.
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Rich, Lisa D. "Feminism in developing countries : the question of the South African Indian." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1014822.

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The study-consisted of a survey questioning the respondents perceived social problems and issues facing women. The questionnaire was given to both Indian and African college students in Durban, South Africa. It was hypothesized that the Indian women would fit Rossi's Assimilationist Model of feminism. This was supported. It was also predicted that Assimilationist feminists would be more likely to name a women's issue when questioned about social problems. The opposite was found to be true. A much stronger relationship was found when race was used instead of the feminist model. Africans were much more likely to name women's issues with regard to family interpersonal relationships when questioned about social problems than were the Indian women. The latter listed structural issues such as poverty and race relations. One explanation could be that family issues are much more salient for Africans and structural issues are important to Indian women.
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Curtin, Thomas. "Ideal womanhood : an exploration of the intersection of Indian nationalist discourses and gendered identities /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19793.pdf.

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Parr, Rosalind Elizabeth. "Citizens of everywhere : Indian nationalist women and the global public sphere, 1900-1952." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33063.

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The first half of the twentieth century saw the evolution of the global public sphere as a site for political expression and social activism. In the past, this history has been marginalised by a discipline-wide preference for national and other container- based frames of analysis. However, in the wake of 'the global turn', historians have increasingly turned their attention to the ways historical actors thought, acted, and organised globally. Transnational histories of South Asia feed into our understanding of these processes, yet, so far, little attention has been paid to the role of Indian nationalist women, despite there being significant 'global' aspects to their lives and careers. Citizens of Everywhere addresses this lacuna through an examination of the transnational activities of a handful of prominent nationalist women between 1900 and 1950. These include alliances and interactions with women's organisations, anti-imperial supporters and the League of Nations, as well as official contributions to the business of the fledgling United Nations Organisation after 1946. This predominantly below-state-level activity built on and contributed to public and private networks that traversed the early twentieth century world, cutting across national, state and imperial boundaries to create transnational solidarities to transformative effect. Set against a backdrop of rising imperialist-nationalist tension and global geopolitical conflict, these relationships enable a counter-narrative of global citizenship - a concept that at once connotes a sense of belonging, a modus operandi, and an assertive political claim. However, they were also highly gendered, sometimes tenuous, and frequently complex interactions that constantly evolved according to local and global conditions. In advancing our understanding of nationalist women's careers, Citizens of Everywhere contributes to the recovery of Indian women's historical subjectivity, which, in turn, sheds light on gender and nationalism in South Asia. Further, Indian women's transnational activities draw attention to a range of interventions and processes that illuminate the global history of liberal ideas and political practices, the legacies of which appear embattled in the present era.
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Silveira, Maria Luiza. "Mapulu, a mulher pajé: a experiência Kamaiurá e os rumos do feminismo indígena no Brasil." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21609.

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As far as the memory of the most elderly can reach, Mapulu is the first pajé woman of the Kamaiurá society, people who live in the Xingu Indigenous Park, in Central Brazil. This study investigates a recent phenomenon in the country: indigenous women taking roles in the sacred world, mastering healing and pajelança practices, having access to the restricted universe of invisible forces and powers, traditional male domains. The major role taken by women in the select magic-religious universe, in many indigenous villages, finds in Mapulu a representation of the changes of the feminine place in the daily routine of the Alto Xingu. This thesis aims at studying the kamaiurá female inclusion in the sacred sphere, place that used to be exclusive of men. The research seeks in the indigenous female movement, originated from demands resulting from the contact with the hegemonic society, the roots that contributed to the resurgence and expansion of the number of pajé women; shows how Xingu has been absorbing the work of female shamans; reveals how dreams guide the path of development of a pajé and surveys the conditions that enabled the process of “becoming a pajé” of Mapulu Kamaiurá – showing how this experience affected herself and the community
Até onde a memória dos mais velhos alcança, Mapulu é a primeira mulher pajé na sociedade Kamaiurá, povo que habita o Parque Indígena do Xingu, no Brasil Central. O estudo aqui apresentado investiga um fenômeno recente no país: o das mulheres indígenas ocupando o espaço do mundo sagrado, dominando práticas de cura e pajelança, tendo acesso ao restrito universo de forças e poderes invisíveis, tradicional domínio masculino. O protagonismo assumido pelas mulheres no seleto universo mágico-religioso, em diversas aldeias do Brasil, encontra em Mapulu o retrato das transformações do lugar feminino no cotidiano do Alto Xingu. A proposta desta tese é a de estudar a inserção feminina kamaiurá no campo do sagrado, lugar antes exclusivo dos homens da comunidade. A pesquisa busca no movimento feminino indígena, nascido das demandas resultantes do contato com a sociedade hegemônica, as raízes que ajudaram no ressurgimento e expansão do número de mulheres pajés; mostra como o Xingu vem absorvendo o trabalho das xamãs; revela como os sonhos orientam o caminho de formação de um pajé, e realiza o levantamento das condições que propiciaram o processo do “tornar-se pajé” de Mapulu Kamaiurá – demonstrando como essa experiência afeta a si mesma e à comunidade
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Gedalof, Irene. "Against purity : identity, western feminisms and Indian complications." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3851/.

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This thesis argues that Western feminist theoretical models of identity can be productively complicated by the insights of postcolonial feminisms. In particular, it explores ways that Western feminist theory might more adequately sustain a focus on 'women' while keeping open a space for differences such as race and nation. Part One identifies a number of themes that emerge from recent Indian feminist scholarship on the intersections of sex, gender, race, nation and community identities. Part Two uses these insights to look critically at the work of four Western theorists, Rosi Braidotti, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway and Luce Irigaray. I argue that strategies which privilege sexual difference as primary cannot deal adequately with differences such as race and nation. But I also argue that strategies which privilege destabilizing identity can be equally constrained by the logic of dualisms which has made it so difficult for feminists to sustain a focus on women and their differences. Part Three discusses how the insights to be drawn from Indian ferninisms might be taken on board by Western ferninisms in order to develop more complex models of power, identity and the self. Throughout the thesis I draw on a Foucauldian understanding of power as productive, and on Foucault's insight that subjects and identities emerge, not through the imperatives of a single symbolic system, but through the intersection of multiple networks of discourses, material practices and institutions. I argue that, by attending to women's complex location within intersecting landscapes of gender, nation, race and other community identities, feminist models of identity can dispense with a logic of dualisms in order to redefine, and not only destabilize 'women' as the subject of/for feminism. This requires working against purity on three levels. First, it requires a model of power that gives up on the search for pure, power-free zones and works instead with the instabilities power produces as it both enables and constrains women. Second, it requires seeing 'women' as a complex, impure category that bleeds across the apparently coherent borders of identity categories such as gender, race and nation, and contesting discursive constructs of 'Woman' as the pure space of origin upon which these apparently discrete categories stand. Third, it requires the development of alternative models of the self that take these complex, impure spaces as a valid and valorised position from which to act and to speak.
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Shaw, Barbara Ann Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "Ecodevelopment and local action: feminist participatory research in Goa, India." Ottawa, 1992.

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Amato, Sarah. "Non-formal education, voluntary agencies and the role of the women's movement in educational development in India." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66255.

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Books on the topic "Indian women Feminism"

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Kunjakkan, K. A. Feminism and Indian realities. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 2002.

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Tejero, Antonia Navarro. Talks on feminism: Indian women activists speak for themselves. New Delhi: Sarup Book Publishers, 2009.

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Tejero, Antonia Navarro. Talks on feminism: Indian women activists speak for themselves. New Delhi: Sarup Book Publishers, 2009.

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Talks on feminism: Indian women activists speak for themselves. New Delhi: Sarup Book Publishers, 2009.

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S, Raghavan G. N., and Nehru Memorial Museum and Library., eds. The resurgence of Indian women. London: Sangam, 1991.

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Women in modern Indian history. New Delhi: Anamika Publishers & Distributors, 2010.

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Ali, Aruna Asaf. The resurgence of Indian women. New Delhi: Radiant Publishers under the auspices of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 1991.

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The gendered India: Feminism and the Indian gender reality. Kolkata: Books Way, 2012.

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Feminist visions: Indian English women novelists. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2000.

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The future of Indian Muslim women: Fatwa vs feminism. New Delhi: Readworthy Publications, 2012.

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Jackson, Elizabeth. "Women, Cultural Identity and Social Class." In Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing, 15–51. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230275096_2.

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Soans, Sonia. "Indian women on the margins of nation and feminism." In Intersectionality in Social Work, 156–69. 1st Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2018. |: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315210810-12.

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LaFromboise, Teresa D., Sandra Bennett Choney, Amy James, and Paulette R. Running Wolf. "American Indian women and psychology." In Bringing cultural diversity to feminist psychology: Theory, research, and practice., 197–239. Washington: American Psychological Association, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/10501-010.

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Saldanha, Virginia. "Digital Revolution—Creating a Flat World for Indian Women." In Feminist Cyberethics in Asia, 47–60. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137395863_4.

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Singh, Shweta. "Transgression into ‘Hidden’ Feminism: Immigrant Muslim Woman from India." In Feminism and Migration, 123–47. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2831-8_7.

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Basu, Amrita. "Indigenous Feminism, Tribal Radicalism and Grassroots Mobilization in India." In Women and Revolution: Global Expressions, 227–54. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9072-3_12.

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Nijhawan, Shobna. "Fallen Through the Nationalist and Feminist Grids of Analysis: Political Campaigning of Indian Women Against Indentured Labour Emigration." In The Subaltern Indian Woman, 173–94. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5166-1_8.

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Balan, Sundari, and Ramaswami Mahalingam. "“Good Asian Moms”: Engendering the Model Minority Myth among Indian Immigrant Working Women." In Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology, 104–22. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137521477_5.

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Midgley, Clare. "Indian feminist Pandita Ramabai and transnational liberal religious networks in the nneteenth-century world." In Women in Transnational History, 13–32. edited by Clare Midgley, Alison Twells and Julie Carlier. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. |: Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315626802-2.

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Sukumar, Deepthi. "Personal Narrative: Caste Is My Period." In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, 137–42. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0614-7_13.

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Abstract Deepthi Sukumar uses her personal experiences of menstruation as a Dalit woman to bring out the intersectionality of caste and gender in menstrual taboos. She explains the different cultural backgrounds of women in India and the patriarchal design of using menstrual taboos for male supremacy and caste hierarchy. While exploring and analyzing the different patterns of menstrual taboos and their implications, Sukumar shows the gaps in feminist understanding of the intersectionality of caste and patriarchy. She concludes by observing that the discourse on menstrual taboos should become the focal point to build inclusion and understand gender inequality and oppression within the framework of intersectionality.
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Conference papers on the topic "Indian women Feminism"

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Santos, Vívian Ludimila Aguiar, Thales Francisco Mota Carvalho, and Maria do Socorro Vieira Barreto. "Mulheres na Tecnologia da Informação: Histórico e Cenário Atual nos Cursos Superiores." In Women in Information Technology. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/wit.2021.15847.

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O objetivo deste trabalho é salientar o histórico da participação feminina na área de Tecnologia da Informação (TI) e destacar o cenário feminino atual dos cursos superiores de TI no Brasil. Para isso, realizou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica e uma análise dos microdados referentes ao Censo da Educação Superior do período de 2014 a 2019, disponibilizados pelo Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP). Os resultados indicam a baixa representatividade feminina nos Cursos Superiores de TI no Brasil, durante o período estudado.
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Macedo, Maysa M. G., Andrea Britto Mattos, Marisa Vasconcelos, Alexandre Martinazzo, and Roseli Lopes. "Identificando Influências na Escolha de uma Graduação em Exatas: um Estudo Qualitativo e Comparativo de Gênero." In XII Women in Information Technology. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/wit.2018.3377.

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Esse artigo descreve resultados preliminares de um estudo qualitativo conduzido com homens e mulheres empregados em uma empresa naárea de tecnologia. Foram conduzidos quatro grupos focais com dois objetivos principais: (i) identificar as influências mais relevantes que as pessoas selecionadas receberam no momento em que optaram por um curso superior naárea de tecnologia; e (ii) verificar se esses fatores diferem entre profissionais do sexo masculino e feminino. Nossas observações indicam que o processo da escolha de uma carreira difere entre os gêneros: enquanto homens buscam especialmente satisfação pessoal e financeira, mulheres demonstram uma maior preocupação a respeito da sua decisão peranteá família e sociedade.
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Seswita, Seswita. "The Resilience Of Indian American Women In Coping With The Domestic Violence Seen In Sejal Badani’s A Trail Of Broken Wings: A Study Of Feminist Psychology." In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icla-18.2019.108.

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