Abstract: The women’s movement has with varying degrees of success negotiated with the changing socio-political contexts in India. However, change is slow and painful and the lives of a large section of Indian women have only marginally improved. The contemporary…
Keywords: Gender issues, women’s issues, communist party, economic independence, Marxist feminist This is an account of my visit to the home of Ajitha, the fiery activist who has been championing the cause of women in our state, in the company…
Keywords: communist party, Soviet Union, Kunnikkal, political activities, Naxalbari The following is the script of the documentary film on Mandakini Narayanan, written and directed by C.S. Venkiteswaran. Kunnikkal Narayanan (1915-1979), a Communist revolutionary, led an aimed uprising against feudal and…
Abstract: In the early eighties, the courts were willing to play an activist role in fact-finding, in order to test whether rights including fundamental rights, were being violated. Groups such as bonded labour, child labour and undertrials had no means…
Abstract: The very fact that the contemporary Indian women’s movement has been around and active far nearly a quarter of a century and that the media have been responding to its activities, as well as to the information and insights…
: Abstract: This paper maps three discrete and overlapping feminist perspectives on globalisation, locating their theoretical genealogies and legacies in development studies, Third World/transactional studies and post-Communism transitology studies. It underlines the prominent discourses of globalisation which in outlining the…
Antonia Navarro Tejero interviewed Rajini Tilak in New Delhi, India, in November 2004. Rajini Tilak was born in Delhi, on 27 May 1958, the eldest of seven siblings, into a poor family. Her father was a tailor and to continue…
Abstract: The paper examines the status of the dissenting feminist voice in a globlalised world, especially that of media and book publishing. The vicious circle of exclusion of Women’s writing on account of language, culture and gender continues. Women’s writing…
Abstract: The various women’s movements have made significant contributions in two fields: in intervening to support women during communal riots and in rethinking religions and recapturing meaning in them. Two issues need to be more emphatically addressed in the Women’s…
Abstract: The Feminist Dialogue (FD) opened up a space and successfully drew in diverse women and views., but it was not a totally open space without boundaries. Women could participate only after they had been selected. The discussions could have…
Abstract: The practices of Women’s Movement are continually being transformed to meet new challenges. Yet feminist politics is constantly confronted with a scepticism against institutionalised politics, it displays an uneasiness with the forms of power that dominate political processes. Similarly…
Abstract: Autonomy in a feminist analysis of the term suggests freedom from patriarchal control within the family and society; for this reason struggles against existing inequalities within the family have been a central plank of women’s demands for autonomy which,…
