Feminist LibraryWHERE EVERY FAMILY wants a hundred sons, but not even one daughter, where infant girls are killed using many ingenious methods, or even simpler, not allowed to be born, in such a land, what is the future of womankind?
Manjula Padmanabhan’s recently published novel, Escape is the dystopian vision of such a society where the no-girls [...]
Filed under: Books, Desipundit | Tagged: declining sex ratio, escape, female foeticide, female infanticide, gender skew, manjula padmanabhan | 8 Comments »
BACK FROM THE DIWALI break, I was chatting with the elderly lady who comes to sweep our street everyday. Though she is employed by the municipal corporation, the wages are paltry so residents usually help her with small tips in cash or kind. As I handed over her Diwali tip and a small box of [...]
Filed under: Culture, Motherhood, Our Bodies, Society, Violence Against women | Tagged: cradle baby scheme, disappearing daughters, female foeticide, male-female ration, sex-selective abortion | 21 Comments »
SOME DAYS AGO, at a function, a distant relative was gently ribbing me and my husband as to who was responsible for cooking at home. Specifically, he was taking a few shots at my expense, that I must be ‘making’ my husband do all the cooking. Most of this was inconsequential small talk; I doubt [...]
Filed under: Culture, Women's Lives | Tagged: cooking, home food, home-making, housewives, housework, traditional roles, women at home | 25 Comments »
A FEW DAYS AGO, when I thought about the conflict parents face when their daughters become “too liberal”, I was really thinking from my own perspective as an educated, young, urban professional. When a commenter mentioned that liberalism does not yet extend to accepting choices such as homosexuality, I was, at first, a bit startled. [...]
Filed under: Identity and Destination, Society | Tagged: Caste, class, Gender, sexuality | 9 Comments »
