scholarly journals Harsh Reality of Chauvinistic Patriarchial World : Ambivalence of Objectified Second Sex After Rebellious Self-Assertion

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-95
Author(s):  
Dr. Surete
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Mixed Feeling ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Harsh Reality

In this paper efforts have been made to show the mixed feeling that comes in the mind of an Indian woman when she realises her worth. The chauvinistic world is using woman as an object to fulfil the desires since ages. Indian women are brought up in such atmosphere that they find it difficult to face men and like a dumb cattle obey all the orders of man, be it their father in childhood, their husband after marriage or their son in old age. She is never asked or allowed to express her own will and when she tries to take the decisions in her own hands she is tortured and insulted with taunts. This paper highlights the feelings of women when she faces such situation. In this paper a deep study of three plays of Vijay Tendulkar has been done which are Kamala, Silence! The Court Is In Session and Kanyadaan .

Beauvoir, Simone de (1908–86)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Sandford
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Essays ◽  
The 1960S

Beauvoir was an existentialist philosopher, novelist and writer. Her early philosophical work (including The Ethics of Ambiguity, 1947) attempted to develop an existentialist ethics, rethinking the ideas of freedom, responsibility and action through the prism of the self–other relation. Her work helped to shift existential thought towards a greater emphasis on embodiment and the analysis of oppression. This approach culminated in The Second Sex (1949), an interdisciplinary study of the oppression and situation of women. This is both a historical investigation into the social conditions that cast women as 'Other' and second to men and a philosophical (existential and phenomenological) account of the lived experience of 'feminine' existence. The Second Sex is of outstanding importance for feminist philosophy and the philosophy of sex and gender, as well as being a major influence on the women's movement since the 1960s. Beauvoir is also well known for her philosophical novels and plays, political essays, travel writing and published letters. Her last book, Old Age (1970), is one of very few philosophical works on ageing and old age. She was co-founder (1945) and lifetime editor of the important political and philosophical journal Les temps modernes. As a prominent public intellectual she was an influential supporter of many leftist and, in later life, feminist causes.

Young Middle-Class Women, Consumption and Fitness in Contemporary India: ‘To Tackle All That is Thrown Her Way’

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
Callie Batts Maddox
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
The Right ◽  
Working Out

This article examines the intersections of fitness, consumption, the middle class and the female body in contemporary India. Having grown up exposed to and interacting with global markets, brands and commodities, young middle-class Indian women seek to engage in cultural practices that distinguish them as members of an upwardly mobile class of urban professionals. For many young women, working out at a gym or fitness centre has become an important performative act that signifies ability to successfully navigate the globalised and cosmopolitan worlds. Drawing mainly from ethnographic fieldwork, the article suggests that the fit, young, middle-class body has become the ‘right’ female body in contemporary India and functions to reinforce a privileged social location. It underpins moralities of self-care and marks the rise of the global Indian woman prepared to tackle multiple roles and responsibilities.

scholarly journals Grinding Songs from Goa

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-246
Author(s):  
Cielo Festino
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Hindu Community ◽  
Harsh Reality ◽  
Grinding Stone

The aim of this paper is to bring an analysis of oviyos, folkloric songs that Indian women from the Hindu community of Goa, former Portuguese colony in India used to sing while working at the grinding stone. These songs, a sample of Goan folklore, were collected by Heta Pandit in the book Grinding Stories. Songs from Goa (2018), based on her field work with singers Subhadra Arjun Gaus, Saraswati, Dutta Sawant and Sarojini Bhiva Gaonkar. The songs, sung in a dialect of Marathi-Konkani, were transcribed into English. These elaborate songs are of psychological and social significance as they provide a release from a sometimes harsh reality, at the same time they are an invaluable cultural document. They have been analyzed from the perspective of Goan folklore as discussed by Phaldesai (2011), the meaning of folkloric narratives (Dundes, 2007) and a reflection on the genre oviyos (Jassal, 2012).

scholarly journals SUBALTERNITY IN AMITAV GHOSH’S SEA OF POPPIES: REPRESENTATION OF INDIAN WOMEN’S STRUGGLE AGAINST PATRIARCHY

Prosodi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Sophia Kiki Artanti ◽  
Mamik Tri Wedati
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Subaltern Theory ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Subaltern Subject ◽  
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

This study analyses the subaltern that represented by Deeti in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies. The subject of the subaltern as an Indian woman is struggling against patriarchy in society. This study uses the postcolonialism theory, including the theory of subaltern to analyze the representation of the subaltern subject who fights against patriarchy. That subject represented by Indian women as the subject of the subaltern. The narration of Deeti in the first Trilogy Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh is the main focus of this study. This study using postcolonialism theory from Homi K. Bhabha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, then subaltern theory also using Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak which describes how 'colonialized subject' lives and theories from Sylvia Walby and Gerda Lerner for the definition of patriarchy. So, this study mainly about how patriarchy will be related to Deeti as the subaltern explained by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The data will be taken from many aspects such as dialogues, a depiction of the situation, characters, etc. This study analyzed two problems, which are (1) How is subalternity represented in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies? (2) How do Indian Women’s struggle to fight against patriarchy in Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh? The results of this study show that Subaltern represented by Indian Women. Then the struggle of Deeti as an Indian Woman and the other characters fights against the patriarchy.

Burning Matters

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-49
Author(s):  
Susmita Roye
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
British India ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Progressive Reform ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Subject

Sati in British India came to simultaneously refer to the widow-burning rite as well as to the self-immolating widow. With growing imperialist interests in the Empire in India, the British administration detected in the sati issue a powerful opportunity to promote the image of a progressive, reform-minded, benevolent Raj. An endeavour to know how Indian women themselves portray sati in their writings is of unfailing interest. Caught between the loud crossfire of the two warring camps of pro- and anti-Sati campaigns, the Indian woman—both the subject and the object of the entire sati discourse—hardly gets a chance to claim for herself the attention of a perceptive audience. The silence of the sati victim is, of course, nearly insurmountable and only a voice, seeped through another agency, reaches us. This chapter concentrates on three such mediated voices (Cornelia Sorabji, Snehalata Sen, and Sita Devi) as presented in their fiction.

Undressing the Coya and Dressing the Indian Woman: Market Economy, Clothing, and Identities in the Colonial Andes, La Plata (Charcas), Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

2010 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana María Presta
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
The City ◽  
Women's Dress ◽  
Specific Identity

Abstract This essay addresses the specific indigenous identity of Indian women resettled in colonial La Plata, particularly those associated with mercantile trades and consequently involved in the creation of colonial markets. The search for Indian women’s urban identities rests upon the material culture associated with labor activities and social standing among those recently settled in the Spanish urban milieu. Objects and places, goods and spaces can be manipulated, reappropriated, and reinterpreted by new social actors on their road to history. Things have meaning and are bound to culture and identity. In this way, indigenous women’s dress and adornment are associated with the dramatic changes brought about by the new mercantile economy introduced by the Spaniards. Indian women who resettled in the city and gained economic success pursuing mercantile trades adopted distinctive components of female dress. These styles evoked both the recent Inca past and certain elements of Spanish attire and adornment that forged a specific identity associated with a specific trade, asserting a newly acquired status in the emerging colonial society

South African Indian Women as Custodians of Subversive Knowledge: A Decolonial Reading of Francine Simon’s Poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arushani Govender
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Betel Nut ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Decolonial Theory ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Research Praxis ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article uses feminist perspectives on decoloniality as a lens for analysing selected poems from Francine Simon’s début collection, Thungachi (2017). Simon is a South African Indian woman poet from Durban, raised by Catholic parents of Tamil linguistic heritage. Her poetry collection, while feminist and experimental, deeply captures the experiences of dispossession and loss that define the large majority of South African Indians, with particular focus on the women whose voices remain marginalised in the South African literary canon. Framed by decolonial theory, this study serves the interests of decolonising research praxis, and thereby the nature of the knowledge produced. I conducted in-depth interviews with Simon and use them as a supplementary device in executing a literary analysis of two poems: “Betel Nut”, and “Tamil Familiars”. These poems emphasise the use of South African Indian English and the role that South African Indian women occupy as custodians of the cultural archive in maintaining fragments of precolonial ontologies. This article finds that it is necessary to critique Simon’s poetry within a decolonial, feminist framework in order to uncover its cultural complexities and contributions to counter-discourse against the Western, objectivist knowledge paradigm.

“Freak Letters”

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-56
Author(s):  
Joan Flores-Villalobos
Keyword(s):  
West Indian ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Us Empire

This essay explores the archival presence of West Indian women in the archives of the Isthmian Canal Commission, the biggest repository of original documents regarding the construction of the Panama Canal. Using a 1909 photograph of a nude black West Indian woman found in a file labeled “Freak Letters,” it considers the difficulties of recovering historical subjects structured by imperial frameworks of productivity and perversity, tracing instead the counternarratives of mobility, affect, and self-determination that might have shaped this black woman’s life. Using this approach, the essay uncovers the archival logic behind “Freak Letters” and recreates the woman’s milieu, highlighting her mobility and diasporic connections. It argues that this woman’s embodied intervention simultaneously confirms and challenges the narratives of US empire that sexualized and limited her. Ultimately, the essay seeks to build an empathetic, archipelagic counterdiscourse as the basis for our explorations of subjects historically silenced or denigrated.

scholarly journals Some Things I Have Learned About Aging by Studying the Life Course

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A Settersten
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
The Future ◽  
Salient Dimension ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Over Time

Abstract “Aging” and the “life course” are distinct but complementary phenomena that inform one another. Building on this insight, this essay conveys some lessons the author has learned about aging by studying the life course. These include that (1) age is a salient dimension of individual identity and social organization; (2) a reconfigured life course brings reconfigured aging; (3) old age is a highly precarious phase of life; (4) difference and inequality are not the same, but both can accumulate over time; (5) aging is gendered; (6) aging is interpersonal, and “independence” is an illusion; (7) “choice” and “responsibility” can be dirty words; (8) much of aging is in the mind—it is imagined and anticipated; and (9) history leaves its footprints on aging, and the future of aging is already here. These lessons culminate in a final insight: that to understand personal aging, gerontologists must look beyond the personal, for much of the relevant action is to be found in social experience.

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