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The High Cost Of Dancing: When The Indian Women's Movement Went After The Devadasis, Teresa Hubel
The High Cost Of Dancing: When The Indian Women's Movement Went After The Devadasis, Teresa Hubel
Teresa Hubel
Introduction: On the other side of patriarchal histories are women who are irrecoverably elusive, whose convictions and the examples their lives might have left to us--their everyday resistances as well as their capitulations to authority--are at some fundamental level lost. These are the vast majority of women who never wrote the history books that shape the manner in which we, at any particular historical juncture, are trained to remember; they did not give speeches that were recorded and carefully collected for posterity; their ideals, sayings, beliefs, and approaches to issues were not painstakingly preserved and then quoted century after century. …
Charting The Anger Of Indian Women Through Narayan's Savitri, Teresa Hubel
Charting The Anger Of Indian Women Through Narayan's Savitri, Teresa Hubel
Teresa Hubel
From the introduction: Written in the late 1930s, when a new irascibility crept into the largely female-produced discourse on the status of women in India, The Dark Room is about a particular woman's indignation and revolt. Savitri is a Hindu wife following in the glorified footsteps of other Hindu wives, such as her namesake from the Mahabharata and Sita of the Ramayana. Although she lives up to the ideals of servitude and devotion implicit in these powerful feminine figures, Savitri of The Dark Room is betrayed by a patriarchal system that allows her husband the freedom of infidelity but denies …
A Mutiny Of Silence: Swarnakumari Devi's Sati, Teresa Hubel
A Mutiny Of Silence: Swarnakumari Devi's Sati, Teresa Hubel
Teresa Hubel
Aim:To discuss how Swarnakumari Devi's family connections as much as her sex contributed to why her work faded from the memory of nationalist India.Introduction: The historical context that helped to produce the writing of Swarna-kumari Devi Ghosal also gives us a glimmer into some of the possible reasons why her work faded from the literary memory of nationalist India. Some of that context is hinted at in the back pages of her collection of short stories in English, published in 1919 by Ganesh and Co., Madras. Reminding us of the inescapable connection between capitalism and knowledge, these back pages are …
In Pursuit Of Feminist Postfeminism And The Blessings Of Buttercup, Teresa Hubel
In Pursuit Of Feminist Postfeminism And The Blessings Of Buttercup, Teresa Hubel
Teresa Hubel
Introduction: I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in thinking that the term “postfeminism” is often and perhaps most frequently used—by the mainstream media generally and by actual people—as a kind of casual dismissal of feminism that comes implicitly coupled with the suggestion that the cutting-edge place to be these days, with regard to women, is the one where the old victim mentality has been sloughed off and a new flying-free-of-those-chains approach to gender in all its diversity and in all its equal opportunity has been boldly embraced. Given the terms of this unstated argument, any criticism of this postfeminism automatically …
Popular Depression: How Literature Is Affecting The Female Image, Samantha Bloodworth
Popular Depression: How Literature Is Affecting The Female Image, Samantha Bloodworth
Samantha Murillo
This paper contemplates traditional representations of females in literature throughout history for the purposes of examining the effects produced upon women by linking traditional representations to increased depression rates among teenage girls and women. Specifically, I will be asserting that the consistent and frequent portrayal of weak women is causing females to be more inclined to identify themselves as depressed. This paper will be focusing on the works of Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, and Stephanie Myers and discussing their respective female characters by examining the language and cultural practices that create Western concepts of femininity to demonstrate how these characters intensify …