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French Feminism has a long history stretching back at least to the Middle Ages, where we see evidence of women denouncing inequality and the unjust subordination of their sex. In the late 1960s and early 1970s of the twentiety century, however, one finds a radical break with the feminism that preceded it. Marked by a libertarian culture influenced by Marxism, socialism and psychoanalysis, the feminism the began in the 1970s rejected the reformist and legal vision ...
"Has there been a 'conspiracy of silence' regarding sexuality in India, be it within social movements or as a focus of scholarship? A question of silence? interrogates this assumption in order to thematise a crucial field. Prefaced by a detailed introductory overview, the essays use diverse perspectives to develop an understanding of the institutions, practices and forms of representation of sexual relations and their boundaries of legitimacy. From ...
"This book suggests that western feminists need to reconsider what they are out to learn from the distant places they visit, while feminists in India stand to gain from a more critical and heterogeneous sense of conflict within American feminism today. Following the initial chapter which positions the author within US academic culture, the second chapter discusses the possibilities and constraints governing the 'travel' of theories such as deconstruction and ...
Such are the constraints of disciplinary boundaries that even when scholars come together in a collective effort to analyse recent processes, their focus narrows down to specific themes, invariably privileging one kind of methodological or conceptual framework over others. The present volume of essays - the outcome of a seminar, 'Changing social formations in Contemporary India', organized under the auspices of the School of Social Sciences of Jawaharlal Nehru ...
Women's studies first emerged in India during the 1970s as a forceful critique of those processes that had made women invisible after independence--invisible not only to society and the state, but also to higher education and its disciplines. Since that beginning, so much has happened in this already vast field that it would be hard to find a major issue or subject that has not been addressed by scholars and activists. This comprehensive reader sets out to ...