Feminism in India
- Not surprisingly, both the cover and the stories inside kicked up a minor storm among women in the United States.
- Commenting on the controversy, Janelle Brown then wrote in Salon, ‘if nothing else, the rapid responses prove that feminism isn’t dead? It’s just changing.’
- The ongoing change is evident in India, too. Take, for example, Ultra Violet, a blog initiated in 2007 by young feminists across the country wishing to express themselves on a wide range of ‘issues, challenges, and triumphs’ relating to women today.
- According to them, Ultra Violet provides a place to explore and understand the ways in which young women in India are challenging, negotiating and transforming unequal power structures.
- It is also a space to celebrate women’s histories, wisdom, creativity, laughter and love for life.
- The feisty young women make it very clear that theirs is a feminist blog and not ‘just another space for women.’
- ‘Feminism is a much misunderstood and maligned word,’ they explain.
- ‘Over the years, its true meaning - the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of sexual equality-has been distorted and defiled by many.
- This blog is both a reclaiming of the term and a clarification of what it means to us, today’.
- Today, in India, "women's empowerment" is a government slogan; it is a feature of every party manifesto....Yet, in the first decade of the 21st century, Indian women - seemingly protected by law, celebrated by the media and nursed by activists - remain second-class citizens, most obviously in rural areas, but in some senses everywhere.
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