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Who Will Speak For The Pasmandaa Women? —Dalits, Women, Muslims, And The Politics Of Representation, Rafia Kazim Oct 2021

Who Will Speak For The Pasmandaa Women? —Dalits, Women, Muslims, And The Politics Of Representation, Rafia Kazim

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This article questions the deliberate omissions of disadvantaged Dalit Muslim women, also known as Pasmandaa women, from feminist, Dalit, and subaltern discourses. To understand the multiplicative nature of oppression and discrimination that these women are continually subjected to, this article foregrounds the intersectionality framework to get a nuanced picture of intersecting vertices of discrimination. It argues that by excluding these severely disadvantaged women from their respective agenda, feminist and Dalit activists have contributed towards their perpetual marginality. Underlying such unaccounted absence of these women is an insouciant attitude of the Pasmandaa leaders towards them. Their approach towards the non-representation of …


Mother’S Story: The ‘Third Space’ For Emancipation In Dalit Women’S Life Narratives, Parveen Kumari, Anupama Vohra Oct 2021

Mother’S Story: The ‘Third Space’ For Emancipation In Dalit Women’S Life Narratives, Parveen Kumari, Anupama Vohra

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In India, Dalit women wrestle not only with gender and economic deprivation, but also discrimination associated with caste and untouchability, which results in the denial of their social, economic, and political rights. Today, Dalit women’s life narratives form an important segment of not only Dalit literature but also world literature. The narration of their sufferings due to gender and caste forms the basis of these narratives. The articulation of the past, which is a "narrative strategy of reminiscence", is the most crucial aspect of Dalit women's life narratives. While narrating the past, Dalit women try to negotiate direction for the …


Insidious Interlocking Of Gender And Caste: Consequences Of Challenging Endogamy, Mayurakshi Mitra Oct 2021

Insidious Interlocking Of Gender And Caste: Consequences Of Challenging Endogamy, Mayurakshi Mitra

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The Caste system in the Indian subcontinent is characterized by hierarchy or gradations according to occupational status. The evaluative standard that places a caste higher than others or lower compared to the rest is rooted in the Hindu Dharmashashtras. The high and the low are opposed to each other because of their associations with notions of purity and impurity in terms of the nature of their occupations. Since each caste is regarded as a closed group, special emphasis is placed on eating, physical contact, and marriage. Out of these three, the institution of marriage plays a significant role in the …


Dissenting Dalit Voices: An Analysis Of Select Oral Songs Of Dalit Women In Kerala, Anne Placid Oct 2021

Dissenting Dalit Voices: An Analysis Of Select Oral Songs Of Dalit Women In Kerala, Anne Placid

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The caste and gender configurations in literary and socio-historic spheres that misrepresent or eliminate Dalit women’s voices in mainstream chronicles uphold the notion that caste subjugation has been unresponsively endured by Dalit women. This depiction of the gendered caste subaltern in the mainstream narratives is interrogated and countered by the oral songs of Dalit women in Kerala. This paper examines how the songs as the sites of the register of the voices of Dalit women hold cultural and historic significance carrying the bearings of the Dalit feminist standpoint. The oral songs which contain the feminist consciousness of the gendered caste …


Absence In Presence: Dalit Women’S Agency, Channar Lahala, And Kerala Renaissance, Binu K D, Manosh Manoharan Oct 2021

Absence In Presence: Dalit Women’S Agency, Channar Lahala, And Kerala Renaissance, Binu K D, Manosh Manoharan

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In the patriarchal milieu of Kerala, the woman’s world is overshadowed by male suppression and cowed silence; the Dalit woman, however, seems to never take it lying down. As is evident from the Channar revolt of the 19th century, Dalit women have never been silent victims in history. This is in stark contrast to the upper-caste women who tend to succumb to caste patriarchy in silence. Drawing on the Channar or Shannar women’s historic revolt for the right to cover their breasts, this paper engages with the question of Dalit women's agency in the social reform movements during the period …


“We Are Working For A Caste-Free India”: An Interview With M. M. Vinodini, Bonnie Zare Oct 2021

“We Are Working For A Caste-Free India”: An Interview With M. M. Vinodini, Bonnie Zare

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The present interview with M.M. Vinodini extends the context of her two stories printed in this issue, “Block” and “Villain’s Suicide” and the contemporary context for Telugu Dalit women writers. It enables readers to consider the combination of factors that must align for a woman and therefore, a secondary citizen of a severely stigmatized community to take action and protest through activist organizing and creative storytelling. Discrimination, self-respect, and assertion are repeated themes in Vinodini’s body of work and here she discusses changing views of caste among young people, the reception of her work, the ongoing mistreatment of sanitation workers, …


Casteing Gender: Intersectional Oppression Of Dalit Women, Bhushan Sharma, K. A. Geetha Oct 2021

Casteing Gender: Intersectional Oppression Of Dalit Women, Bhushan Sharma, K. A. Geetha

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Book Review Essay: White Feminism: From The Suffragettes To Influencers And Who They Leave Behind, Elizabeth Venell Sep 2021

Book Review Essay: White Feminism: From The Suffragettes To Influencers And Who They Leave Behind, Elizabeth Venell

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Book Review Essay: Women Rising: In And Beyond The Arab Spring, Sadia Uddin Sep 2021

Book Review Essay: Women Rising: In And Beyond The Arab Spring, Sadia Uddin

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Book Review Essay: Feminist City: A Field Guide, Lisa Sharik Sep 2021

Book Review Essay: Feminist City: A Field Guide, Lisa Sharik

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Book Review Essay: Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’S Digital Resistance, Francesca Sobande Sep 2021

Book Review Essay: Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’S Digital Resistance, Francesca Sobande

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Book Review Essay: Gender, Psychology, And Justice: The Mental Health Of Women And Girls In The Legal System, Aditi Peyush, Delaney Marvel-Burns Sep 2021

Book Review Essay: Gender, Psychology, And Justice: The Mental Health Of Women And Girls In The Legal System, Aditi Peyush, Delaney Marvel-Burns

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Book Review Essay: Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, And Self-Making In Istanbul, Melissa Langworthy Sep 2021

Book Review Essay: Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, And Self-Making In Istanbul, Melissa Langworthy

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Book Review Essay: Educational Strategies For Youth Empowerment In Conflict Zones: Transforming, Not Transmitting, Trauma, Diana J. Fox Sep 2021

Book Review Essay: Educational Strategies For Youth Empowerment In Conflict Zones: Transforming, Not Transmitting, Trauma, Diana J. Fox

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Book Review Essay: The Future Of Difference: Beyond The Toxic Entanglement Of Racism, Sexism And Feminism, Hale Demir- Doguoglu Sep 2021

Book Review Essay: The Future Of Difference: Beyond The Toxic Entanglement Of Racism, Sexism And Feminism, Hale Demir- Doguoglu

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Book Review Essay: Gender And The Violence(S) Of War And Armed Conflict: More Dangerous To Be A Woman?, Emory Bado Sep 2021

Book Review Essay: Gender And The Violence(S) Of War And Armed Conflict: More Dangerous To Be A Woman?, Emory Bado

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Book Review: Lebanese Women At The Crossroads Caught Between Sect And Nation, Manal Al Natour Sep 2021

Book Review: Lebanese Women At The Crossroads Caught Between Sect And Nation, Manal Al Natour

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Book Review: The Perils Of Being Moderately Famous, Nisha Ghatak Sep 2021

Book Review: The Perils Of Being Moderately Famous, Nisha Ghatak

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Book Review: Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, And Sex In Queer Mexico City, K. Ermelinda García Sep 2021

Book Review: Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, And Sex In Queer Mexico City, K. Ermelinda García

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Bruises, Sushmita Dutta Sep 2021

Bruises, Sushmita Dutta

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Three Paintings, Shivani Singh Sep 2021

Three Paintings, Shivani Singh

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Honor: A Misleading Concept Among Arabs, Mira Ayman Sep 2021

Honor: A Misleading Concept Among Arabs, Mira Ayman

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Void, Mihir Shrestha Sep 2021

Void, Mihir Shrestha

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Creation In Silence: The Woman Listening, Meenakshi Verma Sep 2021

Creation In Silence: The Woman Listening, Meenakshi Verma

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“103-13”, Maha Tazi Sep 2021

“103-13”, Maha Tazi

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Five Works, Ira Mahadeokar Sep 2021

Five Works, Ira Mahadeokar

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“Soulgazers” Portraits Of Unknown Women, Godfrey Okorodus Sep 2021

“Soulgazers” Portraits Of Unknown Women, Godfrey Okorodus

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Art Against Violence: Raising Awareness About The Global Pandemic Of Violence Against Women And Girls, Joy Walker Sep 2021

Art Against Violence: Raising Awareness About The Global Pandemic Of Violence Against Women And Girls, Joy Walker

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Film Review: All That I Am , 75-Minute Documentary, (2020) In May 2021. The Norwegian Film With English Subtitles Was Directed And Written By Tone Grøttjord-Glenne. Produced By Anita Rehoff, Larsen. Distributed By Good Docs., Susan Eliason Sep 2021

Film Review: All That I Am , 75-Minute Documentary, (2020) In May 2021. The Norwegian Film With English Subtitles Was Directed And Written By Tone Grøttjord-Glenne. Produced By Anita Rehoff, Larsen. Distributed By Good Docs., Susan Eliason

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Bleached, Carley Taylor Sep 2021

Bleached, Carley Taylor

Journal of International Women's Studies

This poem speaks of Cambodia where skin lightening ingredients such as mercury can be found in an alarming number of beauty products. Beauty standards often make women around the world feel as though we need to strive to be perfect, better, continually comparing ourselves to someone else. This poem emerges from a trip I took to Cambodia, where I noticed the drive for women to achieve pale skin. In this instance, I felt as though Westernized culture was being forced down Cambodian women’s throats—unattainably beautiful and pale models staring you down at every shop and billboard, skin lightening products everywhere, …