Women in India like black women are still systematically subjected to violence, torture, coercion, sexual abuse, starvation, economic deprivation, dowry death, battering and female infanticide. What is commonly held is that women have been subdued by men and subjected to various types of mental and physical tortures down the ages. In the pre – independence era the position of women in the society was abysmally low, so they developed a sense of inferiority complex. By the sheer force of a vicious
criminologists more and less of Female criminologists. Feminism and criminology is not forgotten, but less remembered. The tragic consequences seen today against females clearly indicate that it has a strong history. But traditionally the scenario is that Criminology is masculine branch of social science because it attributes the study largely of male crimes and male victimization, with very little attention paid to role of gender and especially about women. The theories that this branch of social science
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development Vandana Shiva, South End Press, Medgar Even College, 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225, 2010. 239pp. ISBN 978-0-89608-793-4 $16 Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development brings forth the idea that the dominant thought of the time ‘Science and Development’ is a project of western patriarchy and is masculine which sees nature and feminine knowledge as passive and subservient and has led to discrimination of both women and nature leading to
The role of women in literature is often quite wide in spectrum. With a decline in their status from the ancient to medieval times, to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers, the history of women in India has been eventful. People belonging to literature have always been an important part of the society and Indian women are not an exception. Women have been writing in India since 1000 B.C. Women during the early Vedic period enjoyed equal status with men in all aspects of life. In approximately
Women have always been globally underrepresented in the major decision –making processes in the political as well as in the private sector. This low participation is due to various societal norms that plays a major role in the lower participation of women. Leadership and political sphere is still considered as a ‘dirty area’ from which women needs to be protected. Also women are considered to be following social norms which would dictate them there domestic role. Despite these challenges women has
environment, is there a gender difference? Do women care more about their environment? Eco -feminists argue that there is commonality ground between women’s subordination and environmental destruction. The patriarchy and capitalism often subordinate the nature and the environment. In the society also we could see the reflection of the subordination in terms of women’s subordination. They never are mere reflections but also the worst situation. Women consistently rank values such as altruism, personal
There was also a time when it was a sin to hold a pen for women. Writing was thought to be a male bastion only. Woman was the queen of her four walls and a roof under which she could do anything feminine but not writing that was only a masculine task. Mary Shelley’s most popular science fiction Frankenstein was first published anonymously. Mary Ann Evans used the pseudonym George Eliot to write her novels. Robert Southy had told Charlotte Bronte that “literature cannot be the business of women’s
extent to which popular fiction in India attempts to reflect the complex associations related to gender
broader case-study sense, that I could potentially focus my essay on. But what is quite potentially useful, is how she defines the actually rudiments of the essay question itself. Namely, psychoanalytic approaches to feminism
Hawthorne’s story about a feminine representing feminism culture and importance in the society attempts to highlight the equality and justice that much exist in a societyUnlike those Puritan women in the community, Hester follows what she wishes even against the strict Puritan beliefs and norms. Therefore, the novel is considered as feminist because it brings the ideas about gender equality and love for oneself as a woman. Hawthorne depicts an exclusive view of women, love, sins and how Hester punishment turns