Lana Del Rey-ification of Women: The Political Economy of Melancholic Femininity – Sanandita Chakraborty
You’ve seen her. She’s crying in candlelight, lips smudged, captioned ‘Born to Die’ with 12k likes. The body that moves…
Gendered Spaces and the Public Sphere: A Critical Reflection on Delhi Metro’s Women-Only Compartment Notice – Prachi Shanker
Public notices serve a purpose beyond merely delivering information; they play an active role in influencing how people perceive, engage…
Sex and the City: Decoding the Series Sociologically – Upali Bhattacharya
Rewatching Sex and the City as a show today can be both confusing and liberating. Confusing, in the sense, that…
Between Spaces: Navigating Autonomy, Mobility, and Solitude as a Single Woman in India – Devi D
There’s something profoundly intimate and disorienting about moving out of your family home after years of familiarity, first into hostels,…
Gender and Craftwork in Rural Society: The Role of Education by Nidhi Gaur (2024): A Review by Parvathi Krishnan
Nidhi Gaur’s Gender and Craftwork in Rural Society: The Role of Education (published by Routledge in 2024) is a significant…
Between Resistance and Responsibility: Reimagining Rural Womanhood through Nakta – Anurag Kumar Bauddh
Introduction Growing up in a small village in Uttar Pradesh, I witnessed many rituals and traditions that perplexed and at…
‘Willful Girls’ and Marriage: Reading Gender Equality in Conjugal Relations in Mr & Mrs Mahi & Savi – Deblina Dey
Films can be a powerful tool to confront unequal social relations by offering alternate worldviews. Here, I discuss two films…
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India by Gyanendra Pandey (2025): A Review by Atul Upadhyay
In the January-June (2018) issue of the Hindi journal Pratiman, published by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies…
Monstrous Masculinities: The Folly of Feminists – Aranya Vadera
Perhaps when Shelly’s (2006) unnamed ‘creature’ walked the streets, beseeching to be loved, held, and understood, he wondered what horrors…
Construction of Gender from a Symbolic Interactionism Lens – Vadanya Kaul and Melody Kshetrimayum
Symbolic interactionism is rooted in the works of George Herbert Mead and Herbert Blumer and emphasizes the role of repeated…