Covid-19 Pandemic has Demonstrated that Menstrual Hygiene Is a Multifaceted Challenge in India
Lack of access to period products is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the impact of the coronavirus crisis on period health.
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Mother’s Day Tears
In the midst of the pandemic, with the latest Mother’s Day just past, perhaps it’s an auspicious moment to celebrate not just mothers, but women more generally. After all, during the pandemic, women have found themselves on the front lines in so many ways …
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Sharana Movement and Akkamahadevi: A Conversation with Dr Veeranna Rajur
Dr Veeranna B. Rajur talks about the Sharana movement, its philosophy and the place that Akkamahadevi’s literature occupied in it.
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Revisiting the Writings of Dr B.R. Ambedkar Through the Feminist Discourse
An attempt to view Dr Ambedkar’s work from a feminist perspective and understand his contribution to the discourse.
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Snapshots from Mahatma Jotirao Phule’s Life, Through the Eyes of His Close Aide
The translation of an essay by Govind Ganapat Kale from the 1981 Marathi book ‘Amhi Pahilele Phule’. The book is a compilation of recollections narrated by Jotirao Phule’s associates and contemporaries, compiled by Pandharinath Patil and edited by Sitaram Raikar.
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Protests against Pakistan Prime Minister’s Comment Linking Rape to How Women Dress
Pakistan rights campaigners have taken exception to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s remarks on the causes of sexual violence and rape, terming them factually incorrect, insensitive and dangerous.
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Nawal El Saadawi’s Intellectual Life Reflected Eight Decades of Arab Society and Culture
The Egyptian feminist writer and activist (who was also a physician and psychiatrist) died on March 21 at the age of 89.
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WHO Finds Violence Against Women Affects 1 in 3 Worldwide
In the wake of International Women’s Day, the United Nations released a report that reveals one in three females worldwide, or around 736 million women, have been subjected to physical or sexual violence, mostly by intimate partners.
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Whose Feminism? Palestine’s Feminism
Palestinians affirm, yet again, that one cannot be a feminist while supporting gendered violence, settler-colonialism, indigenous dispossession, and apartheid.
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Why Rawat’s ‘Ripped Jeans’ Remark Shouldn’t be Seen in Isolation
A host of BJP leaders in office have made misogynist and sexist remarks. All in keeping with the Sangh Parivar’s world view on women.
