The Queerness in Shikhandi: Concerning Devdutt Pattanaik’s Shikhandi and Other Queer Tales They Don’t Tell You

Queer theory is a realm of critical theory that developed within/in the early 1990s, out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies. Shikhandi is an important character in the Mahabharata. Hindu tales have many references to queerness; one among them is the story of Shikhandi, a woman who became a man. The gender of Shikhandi is a controversial subject, in epics especially in Mahabharata, men are considered as great warriors, full of masculinity and resilience. But while approaching the text from a postmodernist perspective, we can analyze the gender of Shikhandi as the ‘other gender’, Mahabharata, which means great India have much popularity in India, as Homer’s poems over the Greeks. This paper seeks to examine, how the character of Shikhandi in Mahabharata,who is neglected in the society, the queerness in Shikhandi which is flexible and fluid made him/her a remarkable character in the great epic.

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Critical Theory, Curricular Transformation and Feminist Mainstreaming

Journal of Education ◽

10.1177/002205748416600105 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 166 (1) ◽

pp. 49-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Patti Lather

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Social Change ◽

Critical Theory ◽

Women's Studies ◽

Curricular Change ◽

Antonio Gramsci ◽

Women’S Studies ◽

Curricular Transformation ◽

Change Efforts

This paper examines critical theory, especially the work of Antonio Gramsci, in relation to feminist curricular change efforts in teacher education. It is contended that women's studies is potentially a prime example of curriculum as counter-hegemonic force. Critical theory is taken to task for the male-centeredness of its search for historical actors. The possibilities for fundamental social change that open up when we put women at the center of our transformative aspirations are explored.

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From Women’s Studies to Queer Studies: bending epistemology

Cipango - French Journal of Japanese Studies ◽

10.4000/cjs.1567 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Aline Henninger

Keyword(s):

Women's Studies ◽

Queer Studies ◽

Women’S Studies

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Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations

Queer Maghrebi French ◽

10.5949/liverpool/9781781383001.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Denis M. Provencher

Keyword(s):

Queer Theory ◽

Women's Studies ◽

French Language ◽

Francophone Studies ◽

Migration Studies ◽

Women’S Studies ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Lgbt Studies ◽

And Migration ◽

French And Francophone

The introduction situates this project within the broader scholarship in French and Francophone Studies, post-colonial, diaspora and migration studies, gender and women’s studies, LGBT studies and queer theory, and language and sexuality. I divide the Introduction into three parts wherein each one addresses a different driving thread -- language, temporalities and filiations -- of the overarching argument of the book.

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Kiss of the Spider Woman

The Radical Teacher ◽

10.5195/rt.2019.571 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 113 ◽

pp. 16-17

Author(s):

Louis Kampf

Keyword(s):

Women's Studies ◽

The Other ◽

The Political ◽

Women’S Studies

An Argentinian novel about two cell mates -- one imprisoned for being gay, the other for his Marxist politics – “convincingly ties the political to the sexual” for students in a women’s studies course.

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Interdisciplinary Studies in Context: The Births of Women’s Studies, Asian American Studies, and Queer Studies

Student Activism and Curricular Change in Higher Education ◽

10.4324/9781315611129-6 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 29-48

Keyword(s):

Women's Studies ◽

Asian American ◽

American Studies ◽

Queer Studies ◽

Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

Asian American Studies ◽

Women’S Studies

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Perempuan Dalam Revivalisme (Gerakan Revivalisme Islam dan Politik Anti Feminisme di Indonesia)

Musãwa Jurnal Studi Gender dan Islam ◽

10.14421/musawa.2010.92.237-257 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 237

Author(s):

M Nurdin Zuhdi

Keyword(s):

Women's Studies ◽

Women's Movement ◽

The Other ◽

Islamic Revival ◽

Women’S Studies ◽

Women In Islam ◽

Revival Movement ◽

Almost All ◽

Islamic Revivalism

Conversations about women will never cease to be discussed. Because of concerns about women's studies has always been an issue that attracts attention. But unfortunately, the conversation about women in Islam has always rested on the conclusion that Islam is less or even no female friendly. It has been proven in every blade of which is recorded by history in which the marginalization of women is still happening everywhere and in almost all fields, both in the workplace, in households, communities, cultures and even countries. Marginalization of women does not only occur in Islam alone, even going in the other major religions such as Christianity, Catholicism, Hinduism and Buddhism. And in conversation, every woman always on the contested positions, especially in the discourse of the Islamic revival movement that will be discussed in this article. Movement of Islamic revivalism has thought that leads to return to the teachings of religion. However, in the context of women who claimed to be returning to the teachings of religion is a house of women, ie. women returning to domestication. Here, the struggle against the rise of the women's movement into thinking clashed with the Islamic revival. This article tried to explain the thoughts and ideas of the Islamic revival movement and their implications for the progress and the rise of women in Indonesia.

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Outras Vozes: Women's Writings in Lusophone Africa

African and Asian Studies ◽

10.1163/156921008x359605 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 423-445 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Isabel Fêo Rodrigues ◽

Kathleen Sheldon

Keyword(s):

Women's Studies ◽

Cape Verde ◽

The Other ◽

Research Projects ◽

African Countries ◽

Women’S Studies ◽

The Past ◽

Legal Position ◽

Sao Tome E Principe ◽

Women And The Law

Abstract In this paper we examine the development of women's studies in the Portuguese-speaking African countries of Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé e Príncipe. There are notable variations between these nations, as Mozambique has had a strong Gender Studies unit at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane that has supported a range of research projects and publications on women and the law, women's history, and related topics. The other countries have also produced important studies, often focusing on women's experiences in the anti-colonial liberation struggle, and on more recent issues such as women's legal position. The paper draws out the commonalities and differences in approaches to women's studies by providing an overview of the relevant publications over the past thirty years.

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