Women's Study Centre, JMC

WOMEN AND SEXUAL AGENCY: “THE WHEN AND WHO OF NO”                                                                                                  By Harshita Kumari and Manya Kakkar Abstract  In a period such as this where debates and discussion around agency have taken center stage in academia , feminist movements ( with the #Me Too bringing it to fore) and popular culture ( the movie Pink) it would be worth our time to revisit these debates and discussions and engage with the real-time dynamism w.r.t...

Women Movements in India: Redefining definitions of Democracy -Manisha Arya Women movement in India is based on wide range of issues as there have been such movements at various points of time aimed at transformation in society but also reflects the emancipation of women themselves. The coming forward of women from widely varying socio economic conditions seeking pattern of changes, new demands, new assertions whose influence not only remains limited to relatively small sections of movement but also mobilises women and make them more conscious positively and respectively. Women in India have demonstrated their autonomy through these movements through exercising collective leadership in a democratic manner. Objective To understand whether substantially women-led movements have been politically recognized. Research Question How the women’s participation is a reformulation of public life to address wide range of issues involving various approaches that enhances their politi...

                THEME: WOMEN AND THE VOTE By: Anjali Kumari INTRODUCTION   The participation of women in politics is linked with the inherent inequality present in the social structure relating to the norms, values, customs and rituals etc which together determines the social status of women. The historical account of the status of women in India categorizing them in inferior status has blocked their participation in the developmental process. The roots of women’s participation in politics were set up during the Indian independence struggle. The social reform movement of the 19th century began for the upliftment of women’s status through education, abolition of child marriage, widow remarriage, property rights etc. As women started becoming politically conscious, they viewed their role in freedom struggle through massive involvement which resulted in transformation of women’s position...

Contemporary Global Aspirations of Women Writers Submitted by: Gayatri Ahuja The main objective of this paper is to trace the evolution of democratic aspirations of women writers, making it imperative to look at the contemporary world of literature, to incorporate viewpoints of young women writers as an attempt to comprehend the change in society; an amalgamation of Western and South Asian opinions. With the assumption that contemporary women writers belonging to both worlds, now, have grown more familiar with works of ‘The Other’, with the necessary exposure attributed to the role played by social media in the 21 st century, as well as the assumptions that there is an increase in interaction and awareness, a sense of empowerment in using own’s own name when writing about social, political, economic and global affairs, and a shift in the literary narrative from social events to more personal accounts; this paper acknowledges the change in the pattern of writing and publishing wo...