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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Dr Veeranna B. Rajur talks about the Sharana movement, its philosophy and the place that Akkamahadevi’s literature occupied in it.
An attempt to view Dr Ambedkar’s work from a feminist perspective and understand his contribution to the discourse.
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.
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.
The Egyptian feminist writer and activist (who was also a physician and psychiatrist) died on March 21 at the age of 89.
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.
Palestinians affirm, yet again, that one cannot be a feminist while supporting gendered violence, settler-colonialism, indigenous dispossession, and apartheid.
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.
In West Papua, four out of ten women have been subjected to Indonesian state violence. And, since no kind of violence exists alone, it’s no accident that rape violence occurs in regions with “strategic” extractive industries like mining, oil palm plantations, aloe wood, and fishing.
Participation of women in struggles has not only liberated women from bonds of traditional household chores, it strengthened the struggles as well – this can be seen, from the freedom struggle, to the recent struggles against the CAA-NRC, to the ongoing farmers’ struggle.
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