Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1177/24556327231204412
Anyesha Mishra, Paromita Roy
The crisis befalling women during COVID-19 in India is of seismic proportions affecting 620 million women from diverse sociocultural, religious and caste backgrounds and who are bound by deep-rooted patriarchy. The pandemic’s devastating effects are unfolding in menacing ways and affecting almost every domain of women’s’ lives to an almost irreparable extent—mental and physical health, income and livelihood, education and career, kinship and childcare, roles and status in society. The present study uses the qualitative method phenomenology, interviewing 12 Indian women on their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has affected their lives at home and work. The accounts of these women are then explained and discussed through the lens of feminist movements and related literature of India, juxtaposing their voices with experiences surrounding women of this country during the pandemic. The findings have been subjected to phenomenological analysis which brought out issues related to women’s backbreaking domestic work, mental and physical abuse, effects of patriarchy on their lives, social isolation and poverty.
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{"title":"Book review: Maulana Wahiduddun Khan, Woman in Islamic Shariah","authors":"Sartaj Ahmad Sofi","doi":"10.1177/24556327221131630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/24556327221131630","url":null,"abstract":"Maulana Wahiduddun Khan, Woman in Islamic Shariah. Goodword, 2021, 159pp. ISBN: 8187570318","PeriodicalId":160590,"journal":{"name":"ANTYAJAA: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131439379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/24556327231191581
Govind Dhaske, Anamika Singh-Dhaske, N. Shah, Navnath Gore
The mounting global evidence suggests that women’s participation and active engagement in livestock keeping and livestock product markets trigger financial gains and enhanced household food security alongside several tangible and intangible outcomes. However, to overcome systemic and structural gendered barriers, there is a pertinent need for systematic efforts to increase women’s access, participation and benefit sharing in livestock keeping. Being a woman livestock keeper with legitimate recognition of contribution and benefit-sharing remains a culture-specific phenomenon that has a bearing on the overall impact of gender-equitable livestock development interventions. A focused phenomenological inquiry was conducted to explore and document the lived experiences of women livestock keepers in rural India. The pathways to becoming a woman livestock keeper run through several hurdles yet well-planned inputs, supportive institutional arrangements and culturally suitable gender-sensitive handholding play enabling roles for women livestock keepers to realize their equitable roles and position themselves in the growing livestock product markets. Furthermore, this study suggests that it is critical to put interventional emphasis on converging multimodal efforts to equip women to effectively bargain and engage in the marketing and benefit-sharing process.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/24556327221148011
Srishti, Orcid iD Srishti
In India women suffer from poor maternal health sometime leading to maternal death. The condition is severe in Empowered Action Group states like Bihar. Caste and gender-based biases are responsible for it. Health informatics tools like mHealth is essential for disseminating useful maternal health-related information among rural women since its affordable and portable. A household survey was conducted in Malpur village, Dalsinghsarai block, Samastipur district, Bihar. Purposive random sampling was conducted. Mixed method was used for data collection and analysis. Results show that rural women have severe dependence on their immediate family members for information related to maternal health. ASHAs/AWWs too fail to generate information to lower caste women. Thus, mHealth becomes instrumental in generating maternal health education. The study contends that mHealth is promising in propagating need-based information to women in their own language, thereby becoming a harbinger of health promotion.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/24556327221139703
A. Mitra
Medinipur was one of the leading districts of India in the annals of struggles against British colonialism. These struggles began with the violent Adivasi rebellion, popularly known as Chuar Bidroha or Choar Bidroha in 1776 to the non-violent Quit India movement called by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942 including the communist party led peasant movement (Tebhaga) of the 1940s. The role of women in general and commercial sex workers in particular of erstwhile Medinipur in the Indian freedom struggle have been discussed in this article. Commercial sex workers dedicatedly participated in the nationalist movements knowing it fully well that their profession would be harmed. It may be mentioned that almost no study has been done so far to discuss particularly the active role of commercial sex workers of Medinipur in the Indian freedom struggle. Their sacrifice was not recorded so far by our nationalist historians till the beginning of platinum jubilee celebration of Indian Independence. This article depicts the crucial role played by these women against the ruthless atrocities perpetrated by the British Raj.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/24556327211068894
Pavithra Nandanan Menon
Much has been written about Tamil diaspora as well as Muslim women in Singapore, but only separately. This exploratory article would aim to fill that empirical gap by focusing on a detailed ethnographic study of Tamil Muslim women in Singapore as gendered racialized bodies, thus examining the actualities and dilemmas of being visibly transnational Muslim women in a diasporic space by unpacking the interconnections between identity and belongingness. This work uses a trans-local lens to understand the transnational experiences and hybridized shape-shifting identities of Tamil Muslim women in a diasporic space like Singapore, thus reconceptualizing transnationalism and diaspora. Using an intersectional lens also gives a new edge in addressing the multiple loopholes and interconnections that come together to impact the everyday experiences of Tamil Muslim women in Singapore. This research would thus contribute to feminist literature and (Tamil diaspora) diaspora literature by exploring intersections of identities such as race, religion, and gender that interplay in relation to transnational belongingness from a female standpoint, that of the Tamil Muslim women in Singapore based on the everyday experiences and realities of the social structure within their local environment.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/24556327211068288
Ningombam Rojibala
History has its testimony to the active participation of Meetei women during social and political crises in the conflict-ridden society of Manipur. The historic events of Nupi lal (women’s war) 1904 and 1939 during the British colonial period of Manipur and the nude protest by a group of Meetei women at the western gate of Kangla in 2004 are worth mentioning. Such an active engagement of Meetei women in the political sphere of society, which is considered to be the world of men, makes them appear to challenge the delineation of the two worlds—‘ghar and bahir’, the home and the world—delineated for women and men, respectively. While it would be facile to judge the status of Meetei women based on their ostensibly visible appearances, there is no simple answer to the question of whether they are/are not bound by the boundaries of the home and the world. This article investigates the nature of Meetei women’s engagement in the political sphere to see if their actions are in strict adherence to feminist political ideologies. This article also problematizes the straitjacketing of binaries of protector/protected, victim/agent, public/private and oppressor/victim.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/24556327211068299
Jayat Joshi
I aim to examine the discursive construction of the female body and the definitions of rape and consent in the language used in the Indian courtroom. In order to do so, I locate my analysis in two recent controversial judgements—Mahmood Farooqui v. State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi), 2017 and Vikas Garg and others v. State of Haryana, 2017—both of which reveal how judicial discourse produces female (and male) bodies as normalized sites of a distorted sexuality. Further analysis shows the limitations of legal grammar and semantics in envisaging the female body outside of categories existing in relation to men, and the failure of the judicial apparatus when such classifications crumble. To develop this analysis, I chiefly draw upon the writings of scholars of legal feminism and a scrutiny of reports of the Law Commission of India. The purpose of this article is therefore to arrive at an understanding of the subject of the law as not merely a theoretical, objective entity but as a product of a gendered, variable ideological context, thereby exposing the weaknesses of the linguistic construction of the female body and how it affects decisions of the courts.
我的目的是研究女性身体的话语结构，以及印度法庭上使用的语言中强奸和同意的定义。为了做到这一点，我将我的分析定位在最近两个有争议的判决中——2017年mahmood Farooqui诉国家(德里国家ct政府)案和2017年Vikas Garg等人诉哈里亚纳邦案——两者都揭示了司法话语如何将女性(和男性)身体作为扭曲性行为的正常化场所。进一步的分析表明，法律语法和语义学在设想女性身体在与男性有关的现有类别之外的局限性，以及当这种分类崩溃时司法机构的失败。为了展开这一分析，我主要借鉴了法律女权主义学者的著作和对印度法律委员会(Law Commission of India)报告的仔细审查。因此，本文的目的是对法律主体的理解不仅仅是一个理论的、客观的实体，而是一个性别化的、多变的意识形态背景的产物，从而揭示女性身体的语言结构的弱点，以及它如何影响法院的决定。
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/24556327221080267
Anita Khemka, Imran Kokiloo
Shared Solitude was born out of a literal and forced isolation as a result of a family emergency, coinciding with the very unplanned and brutal lockdown, enforced by a political system hell-bent on being seen as decisive. It made us question the status quo we had grown accustomed to and the dichotomy of our daily lives. One of our early sitters, Ishita echoed our views, ‘Living in lockdown has been a revelation. I have realized that [certain] relationships, having time to read, being with dogs, and having enough meaningful work in the day is enough for me—this is all I would like to keep in my life’. This burgeoning clarity and purpose about one’s life, we realized, was shared by many people. This project thus set out to excavate memory, the joyous and painful, and confronts the universal dilemma of ownership, possession and letting go.
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