All posts tagged "Feminism"
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2.5KHistoryBrave vanguard: Kashmiri feminist icons and iconoclasts
When liberal feminists around the globe were celebrating the women’s movement, women in Kashmir were a step ahead, celebrating the legend of...
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6.9KAnalysis
Of power, patriarchy, prison: A House without Windows
The protagonist being in a physically acrimonious marriage never enunciates a word. This speaks volumes about the helplessness and powerlessness of women...
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5.2KCommentary
Five seminal texts that engage the question of Women’s Rights in Islam
Canonization of religion has led to male-supremacy, a phenomenon that makes many to question the interpretation of texts In my undergrad days...
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6.4KNews
Cricket? Not for my girls, feminists can say whatever they want: Afridi
Pakistan cricket doyen Shahid Afridi’s autobiography has been in the new for all the reasons. Earlier, it was reported that Afridi has...
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6.9KInterview
In conversation with Dr Mubeena Ramzan: ‘Real women empowerment comes from imparting education and skills’
Inside a busy seminary at Srinagar’s Baghat area, young Kashmiri girls are being groomed on modern lines. With usual schooling and theology...
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1.4KUpdates
Western feminism has degraded the role of mothers, says Imran Khan, draws flak
Imran Khan, cricket-turned-politician and founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI), plans to turn the country into a “Naya Pakistan”. But he...
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2.8KOpinion
Deconstructing the Bridge Talks: Gender and Occupation, “The war within and without”
One is justifiably sensitive to the evils of patriarchy, but confusing it with the distinct nature of organised state violence is something...
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5.3KAnalysis
What the Triple Talaq Bill is, and how it’s anti-women and anti-Muslim at the same time
In the back drop of a non-existent Hajj subsidy being withdrawn, the motive behind such moves appears, openly, not about what it...
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5.0KWeb 101
Wrap my Hijab: This Muslim rapper is unwrapping hypocrisies in feminism one beat at a time
Mona Haydar, a Muslim poet, rapper and activist from Flint, Michigan created a powerful rupture in Western Liberal feminist narrative when she...
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13.1KIn Depth
Not submissive, but combative: Kashmir’s superwomen
Unabated mobilization in Kashmir’s women campuses might have been tagged as the ‘defined moment’, but with Kashmiri women always being at the...
