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This article explores the concept of eco-masculinity as an alternative framework to understand masculine identities, with a focus on Perumal Murugan’s One Part Woman. Traditional patriarchal norms define masculinity th...

Widowhood can be a dreaded experience. After the demise of the partner, it is extremely difficult and challenging to adapt to the massive changes and lifestyle henceforth. But this experience is not the same for all and ...

This article explores the neglected character of Urmila in Sita’s Sister by Kavita Kane, analyzing her plight in the context of patriarchal feminism. While Indian scriptures such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata glorify...

The article presents an analysis of John 7:53–8:11, using the interpretive framework of symbolic violence to expose how patriarchy has been legitimised by Judeo-Christian tradition through the naturalisation of violenc...

This article aims to scrutinize the status of women in Indian patriarchal society and explore its implications through an analysis of the fictional characters Miss Leela Benare and Mrs. Kashikar. These characters exempli...

The global feminist movement is going through a new chapter in the twenty-first century. The 19th and 20th centuries avowed a prodigious concordat deal of success for feminist movements that addressed both elementary and...

Octavia Estelle Butler is one of the foundational figures of Afrofuturism. Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic that is used to narrate a story with Afrocentricity at its core. Butler’s Xenogenesis Series (1987–89) o...

En tiempos de crisis (que junto a Rosa Luxemburgo las comprendemos permanentes, no episódicas bajo el capitalismo), las violencias se profundizan. Entre ellas, las vinculadas a las relaciones de clase entre los sexos. A...

This article presents a transnational oral history of Maadhuri Hireker (b. 1940), a first-generation educated Ambedkarite woman whose life traverses rural Maharashtra, the historic moment of Buddhist conversion in 1956, ...

Instead of predominantly functioning to protect women, many toxic marriages even legitimize and institutionalize patriarchal oppression. This has sparked feminist criticism, as in Katie Fforde's novel Going Dutch. Featur...

African women developed indigenous feminist theories because they believed that Western Feminism could not answer the needs of African women. The reasons are cultural differences and differences in African women’s expe...

Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 2022 to 2024 in two urban villages in Delhi, I investigate how Dalit women’s laughter functions as a powerful site of anti-caste resistance and feminist praxis. Moving...

Over the last two decades, women have organized against the almost routine violence that shapes their lives. Drawing from the strength of shared experience, women have recognized that the political demands of millions sp...