A ROOM, GAZE, MOVEMENT: Feminism Between Woolf and the Indian Woman

"The woman is not one woman. She never was."A Room, A Gaze, A Movement: Feminism Between Woolf and the Indian Woman by Karishma Singh begins where Virginia Woolf left off, and refuses to stop there. What does it mean to have a room of your own in a country where most women have no room at all? Singh asks what happens when feminist theory meets the irreducible complexity of the Indian woman, divided by caste, religion, language, region, and class.Drawing on decades of scholarship from feminist thinkers, historians, legal scholars, and activists, she traces the living, politically urgent feminisms that have always existed beyond the Western frame.This is not a critique of Woolf. It is an honest reckoning, and an insistence that the conversation is far from over.

Pagina's: 290, Paperback, Notion Press