Packaging Freedom
by Isphita Chanda
Contributed articles on the sufferings of women during the partition of Bengal in 1947; includes personal narratives.
Hardcover
English
Brand New
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Ipshita Chanda suggests provocatively that it is popular culture that the discourses of modernity, feminism and progress, all articulated by the women's movement, become lived realities. Looking at popular women's journals like Sananda, Femina, Cosmopolitan and Meri Saheli, among others, advertisements that depict 'modernity', TV serials where women are not always meekly subservient, media icons and books by women authors, she wonders whether popular culture could be used to disseminate the goals of feminism. Or is it a case of new accommodations being formed in the name of women's liberation? What are the implications for feminism?
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