scholarly journals From Women’s Studies to Queer Studies: bending epistemology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Henninger
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Women’S Studies

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

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-171
Author(s):  
Ambili M
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Controversial Subject ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Important Character

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.

Women's Studies: Coming of Age in Psychology

1976 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 345-346
Author(s):  
ANNETTE M. BRODSKY
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Women’S Studies

An Introduction to Women's Studies

1977 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 933-934
Author(s):  
LETITIA ANNE PEPLAU
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Women’S Studies

Review of Thinking Feminist: Key Concepts in Women's Studies.

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-329
Author(s):  
Mary Crawford ◽  
Melissa Biber
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Key Concepts

Task Force on Feminist Psychology and Women's Studies

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie A. Shields ◽  
Colleen Considine
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
Women’S Studies
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