Pub Date : 2022-07-22DOI: 10.1177/09715215221111130
Sonia Mondal
From the mid-19th century the existence of a large number of native prostitutes in the British military cantonments confirmed the widespread prevalence of state-authorised prostitution in colonial India. The colonial administration induced new laws that tried to restrict prostitution as a practice exclusively for the service of the British military men and also made it a sanctioned part of the military establishment. Consequently, a new form of regulated military prostitution evolved that radically changed the nature of prostitution as it used to be in the pre-colonial period. In this article, I have tried to explore the causes behind the emergence of regulated military prostitution and how it was implemented and systematised in British India. It would also focus on a new pattern of brothel life which emerged throughout military cantonments and finally the women’s life in cantonments that would provide a glimpse of their daily chores and challenges.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-22DOI: 10.1177/09715215221111138
N. Ahmed, Md. Mohiuddin
This article explores the role of reserved-seat women members of the Union Parishad, the lowest unit of local government in Bangladesh. The number of women representatives has increased manifold over the years, most of whom are elected from reserved seats. Formally, a reserved-seat member has a larger constituency than a general seat member; and enjoys almost similar powers and responsibilities. In practice, there remains a major gap between what the rules say and what transpires on the ground. Notwithstanding their increased presence, women elected from reserved seats to the Union Parishad, often find it difficult to make their presence felt and are ignored, especially by their male colleagues, for several reasons. This article identifies those reasons and argues that women’s increased presence is a necessary but not a sufficient condition of empowerment. Legitimacy gained through winning elections in a competitive process and the willingness of the elected women to get things done in an adversarial situation can be considered important steps towards empowerment. Nonetheless, more is needed, especially organised support from outside, to enhance empowerment and make it sustainable.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-18DOI: 10.1177/09715215221111137
Saurav Kumar
In 2013, Sharmila Tagore1 called Bollywood ‘[n]o country for old women’.1 Like all older women, aging female actors of Bollywood too have experienced what Susan Sontag calls ‘the double standard of aging’: at older ages women are viewed as being too old to play central figures unlike men who play lead roles for a longer time. Aging reduces women’s suitability as ‘heroines’ in the film industry. The article (a) provides a critical genealogy of female aging in the world of Indian cinema, which was born in the colonial era and (b) assesses the representation of older women in more recent Bollywood movies.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-18DOI: 10.1177/09715215221111146
U. R. Jesmin
The study attempts to locate female transgressions against a racist and homophobic society as portrayed by Ann Allen Shockley, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor in their novels Loving Her (1974), The Color Purple (1982) and The Women of Brewster Place (1983), respectively. It applies the content-analysis method, lesbian feminist theory and intersectionality to explore the black women characters’ defiance of hetero-patriarchal culture. The novelists effectively challenge heterosexism, and advocate women’s solidarity and lesbian sexuality as acts of resistance to regulative sexual norms. The theoretical tools compare and analyse how different categorisations of race and sex are interwoven in the novels and how their intersection hinders lesbian relations and women’s solidarity. The commonality of the black lesbian characters lies in their experience of sexualised aggression as well as racial otherness. Walker’s characters, unlike Shockley’s and Naylor’s, powerfully threaten sexist, racist and homophobic society and promote universal sisterhood.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-18DOI: 10.1177/09715215221111136
Chantelle Gray
Electronic music is often presented as originating with the Futurists, John Cage, Robert Moog, Kraftwerk and the Detroit techno scene, yet such descriptions elide the role of women in the history of electronic and experimental music and, importantly, occlude contributions from non-western and non-white musicians. This clandestine history is further obscured by the fact that although there are as many women artists working within electronic and experimental music as there are men, men continue to dominate related events and festivals. In this article, I use Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology—a portmanteau of ‘haunting’ and ‘ontology’—to frame such practices of historiography. For Derrida, hauntology marks not a belief in ghosts but, rather, an ethical injunction to preserve otherness, even while such otherness may not be wholly comprehensible to us. The aim of this article is thus twofold: first, to provide a contextualisation of hauntology; and second, to produce a spectrography of electronic and experimental music, of occluded histories and their haunting presence/absence coordinates, in order that we might remember—sit with—the forgotten h(er)istories while all the time acknowledging that these tellings are themselves necessarily partial.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/09715215221082184
Manashi Misra
Sadhna Arya, Gaining Ground: The Changing Contours of Feminist Organizing in Post-1990s India (Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2020), 265 pp. ₹650 (Paperback), ISBN 9789385606281.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/09715215221082181
V. Poonacha
Meera Kosambi, A Fragmented Feminism: The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee. Ram Ramasamy, Madhavi Kolhatkar and Aban Mukerjee (Eds.) (London/New York: Routledge, South Asia Edition, 2020), 249 pages, ₹995, (Hardback). ISBN 9780429266386.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/09715215221082178
Amartya Kanjilal
This article examines a foundational moment in the history of the women’s movement in India and its engagement with the law: the open letter to the Supreme Court written in 1979 by four scholars of the law—Upendra Baxi, Lotika Sarkar, Raghunath Kelkar and Vasudha Dhagamwar. As part of an effort to commemorate Lotika Sarkar’s work and legacy, this article looks at the letter as an event embedded in a certain history of feminist mobilisation and legal reform, of which Lotika Sarkar remains an integral part. It attempts to understand and narrativise the contiguous political climate within which the letter was written, the legal critiques that it espoused, the kind of politics and affiliations it led to, the governmental responses it evoked and the new categories and concepts it introduced to the jurisprudence of sexual offences in India.
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