Tuesday, August 12, 2008

More gender links

Folks,

A few collected links from the Austin Openmike (that Subbu refers to) in his post are at:
[1] Gender bias, stereotypes, and sensitization [India] (links)
[2] More gender links...
[3] More links related to gender discussion
There are more links and posts related to sex education and assessing pornography from a feminist perspective. But those need not be related to this discussion today.

Thanks
Vinod

From Sandhya:

http://womenshistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=womenshistory&cdn=education&tm=10&gps=122_166_1020_581&f=10&tt=14&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.fair.org/extra/9200/sports-bias.html

From Sabita:

http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/apr/30inter.htm

Can you elaborate on his original ideas?

His ideas about women, caste and communism were very original. His ideas on women were far ahead of today's feminists. He said the subordination of women was because they gave birth to babies. He said unlike the man, from the moment the baby started growing inside a woman, her thought process changed. According to him, man and woman become unequal from that point onwards. He spoke about equality even in those days but in a different way.

He also had a strong opinion on thali (mangalsutra).

He said thali should not be worn by a woman at all.


From Deepa:
A bbc article on gender bias:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7570192.stm

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