Indian Feminism

Manju Kapur's search for home:A shuttle from difficult daughters to home

by dr shivani vashist

Lapis Lazuli –An International Literary Journal / Vol.I/ Issue.I /July 2011

The „ homelessness‟ mentioned by Manju Kapur in Difficult Daughters is dealt in the next novel. The protagonist Nisha... more The „ homelessness‟ mentioned by Manju Kapur in Difficult Daughters is dealt in the next novel. The protagonist Nisha finds her home in the next novel.

India - Missing women

by Sylvie Brieu

Text by Sylvie Brieu
Photos by Tiane doan na Champassak

Published in National Geographic France

On Mitchell and on Glazebrook on βίος

by Babette Babich

Text of a response given to two lectures presented at the start of the 45th meeting of the Heidegger Circle at Marquette University, May 5, 2011 in Milwaukee. The first talk was by Andrew Mitchell, entitled “Towards a Heideggerean Floristics: Rethinking the Organism in the Late Work,” the second lecture was by Trish Glazebrook, “Sustainability in Heidegger and Shiva: Das Rettende and Women Subsistence Farmers.”

A video lecture presentation of this talk is also available -- see link below. A video lecture presentation of this talk is also available -- see link below.

'Samudayik Shakti': Working-Class Feminism and Social Organisation In Subhash Camp, New Delhi

by Ayona Datta

2007, Gender, Place, and Culture, vol. 14(2), 215-231.

Working the Night Shift: Gender and the Global Economy

by Reena Patel

The global mainstream media characterizes the IT sector, and transnational call centers in particular, as catalysts... more The global mainstream media characterizes the IT sector, and transnational call centers in particular, as catalysts for social change in India. Yet, the emergence of this industry is not shifting patriarchal relations of power in a significant way due to social and spatial constraints on women’s mobility in the urban nightscape. Specific to call center employment, mobility is important because it requires night shift workers. For a woman in India to be out at this hour is generally considered improper and unsafe. However, women are participating in this industry and corporate strategies, such as the use of private shuttle vans to transport women to and from work in the middle of the night, reflect the ways in which both the industry and its female employees negotiate a presence in the public sphere. Based on exploratory research conducted in Mumbai, India in January, 2005, I argue that the insertion of women into the urban nightscape, via the night shift requirements of the global economy, is met with covert resistance. Although there are no visible barriers such as “men only” signs written into public space, women’s bodies continue to be marked as a site of transgression.