Among the privileges of having a feminist and a doctor for a mother is that one grows up, not merely hearing of the “big bad world” where the wolf would eat up one’s grandmother, but fully prepared for it, and shaken down, corners rubbed, ready to meet with equanimity the world’s imperfections and one’s own. I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Violence against Women’
Chastity’s mutilated daughters
Posted in Violence against Women, Women and the society, tagged Africa, female genital mutilation, UNIFEM, Violence against Women, WHO, women violence on December 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Missing !
Posted in Violence against Women, Women and the society, tagged adverse sex ratio, Female foeticide, Female Infanticide, India's missing girls, sex selective abortion, Violence against Women on November 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What difference do a few million missing girls make to a country that has a population of over a billion? This: In rural Punjab, where the shortage of women is most pronounced, a desire to keep rural family holdings intact is now driving a trend towards polyandrous unions where one woman, often ‘purchased’ from poorer [...]
The Media’s “little” mess up.
Posted in Violence against Women, Women and the Media, Women and the society, tagged children media, children sexuality, sexualization, Violence against Women, women media on September 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I played obsessively with Barbie when I was a child. However growing up took me away from the dollhouses and I encountered Barbie yesterday again, nearly ten years since I last played. However, our reunion was anything but pleasant as I read about the new Barbie in fishnet stockings. Disbelieving, I decided to check it [...]
What Bhairavi unknowingly did
Posted in Violence against Women, Women and the society, tagged Dowry, Dowry Prohibition Act, Female foeticide, Female Infanticide, Violence against Women on September 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It was an eventful night. Bhairavi became a bride. Along with her, her weight in gold crossed the threshold of her in-laws’ home. Everyone smiled. She was a chubby girl. A few houses away, Kalpana, locked in her room without food could hear the disharmonious orchestra. A sour reminder of how little she had brought [...]
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