Positive Feminism

Krupabai satthianadhan: A journey of first female indian author Credits: pipspatch.com Her life starts on 1862 in Ahmednagar. Her Father name was Haripunt and mother name is Radhaibai khisty. Things haven’t turned lucky for her as her father passed away when she was just a child, and she was brought up by her mother and elder brother Bhasker. Even though the societal mindset of that time doesn’t encourage women to be educated but train women to be much of a housewife or houseworker. But krupabai brother Bhasker had a strong influence on her and encouraged her to inculcate the habit of reading books. Bhasker diedat a young age which was one of the prominent people in krupabai's life who supported her in her studies. Death of Bhasker left krupabai deeply wounded, and two European women missionaries helped her and took responsibility of her studies. Later on when she went to Bombay Boarding School for studies, there she met an American woman doctor who got her interested in medicine. ...

 How Courtesans became one of the first financially independent women of India? Credits: The telegraph India Known by various names like tawaifs in the North, Naikins in Goa, these were some of the few names of women who carried art and culture throughout the time. But their contribution to India’s classical arts was scrubbed by rumors and their culture was lately remarked as 'prostitution' by many. Courtesans were the center of art and culture for centuries, they were excellent in both music and dance. Thus was not clear whether they had many sexual relationships or not and if they do had those sexual relationships with patrons was likely consensual.   Even in those times too they were not acceptable by the society with open arms but still admired for their knowledge in art. Courtesans were divided into hierarchies too, tawaifs were at the top and street prostitutes comes a class lower than tawaifs. Tawaifs were highly sophisticated Courtesan and they also contributed to m...

Why Women Body Hair is such a big trouble? Let’s have a Feminist outlook on that. Credits: Mathilda Rech Here is one more part of societal unrealistic beauty standards. For centuries, society forced women to be more “ladylike” but the term ladylike is seen differently in different regions of the world. For example, the Chinese culture had a tradition of foot-binding named 'lotus-feet' which remained for almost 8 centuries in China. The arches of women feet were systematically reshaped by forcing them to wear tiny ‘lotus-shoes’ that doesn’t allow their feet to grow more than 3-4 inches throughout their life. The motive of following this culture is marriage, the smaller the feet were the higher the chances would be there of getting easily married because small feet were seen as a status symbol for the people there in ancient china. History of Body Hair Removal  Credits:hubspot.com Removal of Body Hair has a long history, dating all the way back to The Stone Age, which was around...

Love Yourself. Importance Of Body Positivity. Credits: Hannah. Beauty starts in your Head not in your mirror. Body Positivity refers to the assertion that all people deserve to have a positive body image, regardless of how society’s view of ideal shape, size and appearance of a particular body. Body Positivity is not just about your physical size or appearance people also mark judgements on your race, gender, sexuality and disability. How this positivity Movement started? Credit: British Museum representing woman into tight lacing. As the part of First Wave Feminism from the 1850s-1890s includes a movement called the “Victorian Dress Movement” that aimed to end the trend of women using corsets and tight lacing in order to fit in the societal standard of tiny waistlines at that time. This trend of tight lacing had many health risks and it’s very uncomfortable too for every women at that time. Women were mocked for their “egotism” for not following the trend, and they were criticized ...

Top 5 Bollywood Movies that depicted feminism beautifully. Credits: India Today Bollywood been a restricted place for women empowerment and shown women as per the societal build up norms to be beautiful, know household work, humble, weak, dependent and should treat her husband like a god, this image depicted in the movies in the 80s and 90s movies mostly. The female oriented roles were rare and screen timing of women in the movie were rather less than hero’s in the movies. However with a thankful awakening of filmmakers have realized how important it is to portray female oriented roles and give them more screen timing to show some empowerment through them. Movies were always been a big part of everyone's life so it became important to change the wave of thinking. Movies in 90s not only shows women weak but also shows casual sexism, body shaming, racism and use them as a sexual entity to entertain men casually like women were entitled to be in these conditions. These thoughts thro...

How Feminism started around the world?                                                                                  Credits: The Atlantic demanding equality for all The history of feminism comprises the narrative (chronological and thematic) of the movements and ideologies which have aimed at equal rights for women. In short feminism means “equality” but feminists around the world have differed in causes, goals and intentions depending on time, culture and country most western feminist historians assert that all movements that work to obtain women’s rights should be considered feminist movements even when they did not apply the term to themselves. Some thinkers have sought to locate the roots of feminism in ancient Greece with Sappho (d.c 570...

Credit: Seventeen Magazine Editorial cartoonists around the world are helping to end this gender discrimination with spirited and thoughtful depictions of the inequalities and injustices women face. They do this often at the cost of risking their own lives, as they face increasing opposition for the work they create. With the rise in feminism, animated movies acted as our very first introduction to feminism. There were times when women were depicted through the features like 'Lips red as the rose' and 'skin white as snow'. The animation changed through time with the arrival of feminism and women empowerment which is why attempts were made to depict it on television as well. The 1930s ended with the Disney fairytale Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. The movies lead character Snow White was presented as weak and humble even when she ran away from her house and reached the place where seven dwarfs live, there also she used to work at home and do household chores and seven...

                                                                             Credit: Ameni Esseibi and danamercer represention that weight gain is not a problem. It’s all started in 18 th century and modern problems need modern solutions. In this criteria of “Overweight means ugly” basically falls in every gender whether it’s male or female but still society put more pressure on women because she was expected to be “perfect” infront of everyone eye’s and this perfect doesn’t mean being yourself, this perfect means being according to the society’s build up norms. Even though weight gain is a problem for some and solution for some. Solution for those who are underweight but healthy (but not perfect as per society’s specialize opinion) and problem for those who...