Positive Feminism

  WHAT ADRIENNE RICH WANTS TO EXPRESS THROUGH AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS?   source- Pinterest It is the same poem we have read in our class 12th English book and maybe some were now reading this poem in their class 12th syllabus but this poem was something that strikes on my mind when I first read it in my class 12th class. With the use of many alliterations and metaphors, this poem represents a powerful and realistic story. The poem is as follows:   Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,  Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.  They do not fear the men beneath the tree;  The pace in sleek chivalric certainty. Aunt Jennifer's finger fluttering through her wool  Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.  The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band  Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand. She also wants to convey a message that one-day aunt Jennifer will die but her art will stay alive and her desire to be fearless When Aunt is dead,...

Three BRAVE FEMALE EGYPTIAN PHARAOHS CREDITS- https://emanuelthepoet.wordpress.com/ P haraoh is the  name or word used for the monarchs of ancient Egypt. When it comes to know more about Egyptian culture we would realize that Egyptian women were always treated as a true better half or superior to men but when it comes to ruling a whole country women were underestimated most of the times. As in Egypt marrying real brother, sister or cousins is common to secure the royal blood in the family itself so most of the royals were married to their family members too.  Before Roman Empire in 30 BCE reigned the Egyptian empire the total of 9 women made their journey and made their place in the chair of a king and ruled Egypt. But today we talk about three of them. 1. SOBEKNEFERU (DIED IN 1802 BC)                                                       ...

  Credits: All that’s Interesting, Jauhar in India Consent wasn’t been a part of women lives in India in ancient times, especially in the times of monarchy in India women were treated as a commodity to be won as a prize for conquering a territory or winning a competition or even sometimes king give beautiful women as a gift to other kings. So let’s discuss what Jauhar ritual is basically As per this ritual the wives of the warriors would take their children and jump into the fire (commonly called kund) after their husbands were faced with defeat. It is also believed that women would wear their bridal attire before stepping into the flames. Fire is also a symbol associated with purity, which is why these rituals were performed mainly with fire. This ritual was glorified in the Rajput community and women were taught and encouraged to perform this ritual. The main purpose of Jauhar was to save women of a particular region or territory which is now captured by foreign invaders from ens...

HOW DO EDUCATION SYSTEM STARTED SEXUALIZING YOUNG GIRLS IN INDIA? Credit: Time Magazine The strategy of policing girls or putting girls under a particular dress code had been started from the very beginning of the girl’s education system because girl’s education started very late and wasn’t even considered appropriate for girls in general. At the beginning of the 19th century, people do start educating women just because of the fact that “mothers are the first teacher of their children” even though this fact is correct but society at that time was just providing primary or secondary education to women at that time in other countries like Greece, America, Britain, etc higher education was still not considered important. The idea of “good housemaker or household women” remained for a long time and restricted women to have formal education.   Headlines such as girls are sent back home from school for wearing clothes which show too much skin, young girls being punished inhumanly f...

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...