Sexism to Feminism – Evolution of Women in Horror – Prakriti Kandwal
Women are a quintessential part of the horror movie trope. From being the infamous ‘damsel in distress’ to ‘scream queens’…
Pathaan: Fractured Hope for Feminist Fans? – Swati Dyahadroy and Sneha Gole
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. This piece will try to locate anxieties around…
Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions edited by Melanie Heath, Akosua K. Darkwah, Josephine Beouke-Betts and Bandana Purkayastha (2022): A Review by Chiara Chiavaroli
The book Global feminist autoethnographies during COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions (published by Routledge in 2022) displays a wide collection of…
Feminist Activism and Platform Politics by Verity Trott (2022): A Review by Sukanya Bhattacharya
With technology becoming a significant space of feminist negotiations and activism over the past two decades, Verity Trott’s book Feminist…
Deconstructing Theory: What’s In It? – Shainal Verma
Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We…
Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader edited by Sunaina Arya and Aakash Singh Rathore (2020): A Review by Sonu Bagri
Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader (published by Routledge in 2020) revisits Indian feminist thought by bringing the category of caste…
Refashioning India: Gender, Media and a Transformed Public Discourse by Maitrayee Chaudhuri (2017): A Review by Pratichi Majumdar
Published by Orient Blackswan in 2017, Refashioning India: Gender, Media and a Transformed Public Discourse by Maitrayee Chaudhuri tells the…
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence by Shrayana Bhattacharya (2021): A Review by Dhritimona Bharadwaj
Shrayana Bhattacharya’s Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence (published by HarperCollins India…
Re-imagining Sociology in India: Feminist Perspectives edited by Gita Chadha and M.T. Joseph (2020): A Review by Mansi Malhotra
In the honor of feminist sociologist Kamala Ganesh, the book Re-imagining Sociology in India: Feminist Perspectives edited by Gita Chadha…
The Feminist Movement and its relationship with Sociology – Ishita Bagchi
One of the ways in which some scholars have attempted to map the evolution of feminist literature within sociology is…