The politics of beauty in the salons of Bangalore
Tulasi Srinivas‘s The Goddess in the Mirror is an ethnography of Bangalore’s beauty salons, teasing out how beauty intertwines with gender, labour, caste and myth in urban India.…
Tag: patriarchy
What makes a home? A transformational politics for housing justice
Alva Gotby‘s Feeling at Home explores the complex interplay of practical and emotional concerns that a home involves, which are often flattened in debates around housing justice. Showing…
Q and A with Naila Kabeer on Renegotiating Patriarchy
In this interview with Anna D’Alton (LSE Review of Books), Naila Kabeer discusses her new book, Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox, forthcoming from LSE Press in Septe…
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule – review
In The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, Angela Saini explores the origins of patriarchy, debunking biological determinism and highlighting the role of nation building, social norms, and…
Fiona Murphy: Irish State to seal records of Mother and Baby Homes for 30 years: Urgent call for action
Tiny bodies, the remains of little children entombed without name or mercy, are uncovered in Tuam, a small Irish town in Co. Galway in the west of Ireland,…
White Patriarchy Gets a Pacifier
In the era of #MeToo, we need collective liberation, not the tears and tantrums of white male entitlement. In less than the time it takes you to read…
Black Women and the Fight against Sexual Violence
We cannot fully comprehend today’s activism without the complex histories of Black women’s struggles against sexual violence. Several years ago I interviewed a retired scholar who was one…
Patriarchy & The Ineptitude of Fathers
The physicist Wolfgang Pauli famously derided those with whom he disagreed using the insult, “you’re not even wrong.” This stinging reprimand was meant to imply that a proposed…
Biting the hand that feeds
Misogyny at the Trinidad Guardian… Maybe I am a prude, but is it ok for a national newspaper to regularly publish a column whose language, imagery and content…
Biting the hand that feeds
Misogyny at the Trinidad Guardian… Maybe I am a prude, but is it ok for a national newspaper to regularly publish a column whose language, imagery and content…
Biting the hand that feeds
my last column for the Guardian under their current editor, who i think fired me for calling out his star columnist for being a sexist… Maybe I am…
On violence, reality, and the parameters of social existence: A comment on Graeber’s essay.
I’ve been reading David Graeber’s The Utopia of Rules: on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy lately. Slowly I should say – I’ve been…
On violence, reality, and the parameters of social existence: A comment on Graeber’s essay.
I’ve been reading David Graeber’s The Utopia of Rules: on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy lately. Slowly I should say – I’ve been…