Barbie shot into the public consciousness just as the Second Wave of the women’s movement was galvanizing attention. Young girls did not have to only see themselves as mothers any longer. Barbie was glamorous, had the perfect body, a full range of fabulous clothes, a pink Corvette, and a dream world– Barbie Land– where she lives with other Barbies.
“The ‘male gaze’ is a theory propounded by Laura Mulvey. There is no ‘female gaze’ as such because both men and women are equally capable of it and have proved that a film’s success – art house or commercial – does not necessarily depend on exhibiting the woman’s body as a sexual object,” explains Shoma A. Chatterji, film scholar and writer, who has written extensively on gendered cinema.
Zambia tried to learn from the scheme of Bihar and, around May 2022, started implementing a similar model. As per the scheme, every participating schoolgirl would receive money to buy a bicycle to commute to school after reaching a particular grade.
These sports luminaries are unexpected crusaders in the fight against sexual harassment. Practicing their throws, literally and figuratively, they are drawing attention of the nation to sexual harassment in sports. An unusual array of supporters is backing them in their fight marking a transformative moment that shifts the domain, discourse, and constituencies to challenge sexual harassment.
Aajibaichi Shala is an unique school run in a small village of Thane District of Maharashtra. With its
inception on 8 th March 2016, Women’s Day, this school aims to educate illiterate grandmothers of
the area whose age ranges from 60 to 94 years.
Each story portrays the various challenges lesbians face in living lesbian lives, either secretly or in the open. The book gives the reader insight in terms of both the progress made and the miles to go, before a lesbian and queer identity is not stigmatized or constrained.
The story of my friend is the story of every Indian and perhaps most people across the world. Our society, religion and culture have depersonalised, eclipsed, obliterated, and reduced the mother to a nobody.
The books that we now read, and which appear at bookshops once self-labelled as ‘left’, are less about the (apparently always predominantly white, male, and cishet) themes of revolution, the transformation of the world, or the analysis of complicated political situations.
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