‘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…
Biology is Not Our Destiny: Trans-ing as a Way of Resisting Right-Wing Authoritarianism – Udhriti Sarkar
In April 2025, the UK Supreme Court delivered a discriminatory judgement that stated that a woman is defined by her…
Feminist Movements in India: Issues, Debates, Struggles edited by Sadhna Arya and Lata Singh (2024): A Review by Alankrita Anand
At the outset, what is most striking about Sadhna Arya and Lata Singh’s edited volume Feminist Movements in India: Issues,…
Its Time to Care: Preliminary Findings From Time Use Survey, India – 2024 – Apurva K H and Abhishek Sharma
Gender is an organizing principle of society, historically constituted and works in intersection with other structural features of society such…
(Re)Defining Manhood: Exploring Gender, Masculinity, and Sociology in Adolescence – Shruti Das
The trending Netflix mini-series ‘Adolescence’ plunges viewers into an unsettling world of adolescent children struggling to find their identities. Presented…
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf (1990): A Review by Shrishti Kumari
Naomi Wolf is an American author and journalist well known for her contribution to feminist thoughts, particularly through her ground-breaking…
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (2018): A Review by Shivani Waldekar
I watched ‘The Vagina Monologues’ on stage in one of Mumbai’s theatres around five years ago while studying at the…