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Since centuries ago women’s beauty and sensuality have been celebrated the world over in many different ways; be it in the form of paintings, sculptures, architecture, furniture, so on and so forth. This time the paradigm has been shifted from ‘women’ to ‘men’. Samal Design, a popular Paris based design studio has come [...]

Mahasweta Devi’s ‘The Hunt’ is a story of gender roles and their reversal as a form of seeking justice to gender inequality and oppression. It is also a story of one woman’s triumph over her vulnerability in a patriarchal system and male-dominated society. At the most, it is a critical response to a macho culture. The oppression of woman in [...]

‘The Hunt’ is a story of a rural tribal woman from India. Her name is Mary. She is harassed and stalked by a male logging contractor named Tehsildar who earlier came to her village to buy logging rights. He grows lustful of her. She resists his sexual advances. In an act of self-preservation later on, she turns predator and murders him. In the [...]

This is a story of gender in the Hebrew bible. The benchmarks of gender stereotypes, as well as gender politics and situations when gender rears its ugly head are found in this Judges story. More than a story of gender, this is a statement on gender. Sisera, a Canaanite commander, is the quintessential male warrior. His chariots had been his pride [...]