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May 30, 2010By Aparna Singh GOOD GIRLS Don’t Talk to Boys. And vice versa, although an exception may be made for good boys who are simply lured by bad girls. Tags: children, education, feminism, Indian society and women, sexuality | Category: Institutions, Morality, Women's Lives |
November 08, 2009By Sharanya Manivannan PENELOPE TRUNK CAUSED A tremendous controversy when she Tweeted about her miscarriage (and the fact that she was glad she didn’t have to wait for an abortion, which is difficult to get in her part of the USA). I found the controversy ridiculous on many levels – after all, many people share personal information online [...] Tags: abortion, Eve Ensler, miscarriage, Penelope Trunk | Category: Art, Culture, Desipundit, Identity and Destination, Media, Morality, Our Bodies, Women's Lives |
October 22, 2009By Guest Contributor By Ramapriya Gopalakrishnan Leafing through pictures mailed by a friend, I find one of me on the beach laughing uninhibitedly with my hair streaming in the wind, and I smile to myself thinking ‘this is so me.’ I am a single woman in her thirties, have never been married and have no ‘special [...] Tags: Marriage, single women, singlehood | Category: Culture, Desipundit, Marriage, Morality, Relationships, Society, Uncategorized, Women's Lives |
September 08, 2009By Guest Contributor By Aditi Srivastava “In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic [...] Tags: bollywood, Dev.D | Category: Art, Desipundit, Love, Morality, Popular Culture, Relationships, Sex and Sexuality |
August 13, 2009By Anindita Sengupta RECENTLY, OVER AT at Feministe, guest blogger Ren did some frank speak about being a sex worker: Tags: public spaces, sex work, sex workers | Category: Desipundit, Morality, Prostitution, Sex and Sexuality, Society, Women's Lives, Work Life |
July 14, 2009By Anindita Sengupta WITHOUT BEING hyperbolic, let me just say that this nearly made me upchuck my morning tea. The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh subjected 151 women to ‘virginity tests’. The women were to be part of a mass marriage scheme in Shadol near Bhopal. To avoid ‘complications’, the state government saw it fit to conduct physical [...] Tags: madhya pradesh, mass marriage, virginity, virginity tests | Category: Desipundit, Exploitation, Institutions, Marriage, Morality, Our Bodies, Sex and Sexuality |
July 03, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat …AND ANOTHER ONE BACK. While the decriminalization of consensual gay sex is indeed a victory for those rooting for orientation-equality (refer to this news item), constricted notions of propriety continue to be imposed on basic choices deemed even remotely threatening to social fabric. A case in point being denim. I kid you not. Jeans, according [...] Tags: ban jeans, dress code, gay rights, self determination, Uttar Pradesh | Category: Identity and Destination, Institutions, Law, Morality, Our Bodies, Sex and Sexuality, Society |
June 15, 2009By Guest Contributor By Amodini Sharma Tags: AIDS, education, premarital sex, puberty, schools, sex education, teen pregnancy | Category: Desipundit, Morality, Our Bodies, Politics |
April 24, 2009By Guest Contributor Shilpa Phadke, Anjali Monteiro and K P Jayasankar ask why the reportage of the recent sexual assault of a young woman plumbs new depths in insensitive, unethical and sleazy journalism. Tags: Media, Mumbai Mirror, Mumbai rape case, TISS | Category: Desipundit, Institutions, Justice, Law, Media, Morality, Rape, Violence Against women |
March 06, 2009By Anindita Sengupta SOME OF YOU have asked how you can help in the campaign against the attacks on women in Mangalore and Bangalore. Running a poster campaign in your neighborhood, college or office is a quick and easy way. Here are some posters I’ve received from different organizations. Click on the download link to get a large-size [...] Tags: bangalore attacks, download posters, managalore attacks, poster campaign, protest | Category: Culture, Media, Morality, Our Bodies, Politics, Uncategorized, Violence Against women |
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