Disobedient Bodies

The patriarchal societal system, indeed, is a hypocritical union of individuals and a structure of rules that benefits from women’s bodies but, contradictorily, leaves no room for their liberation. This article will explore the radical acts against women that have ruined their connection with their bodies to profit from oppression. 

The structural parallels between the treatment of the Earth and the treatment of women share an experience of exploitation, control, and commodification. The nurturers and care-givers are thus subjected to extraction, control and regulation, stripping them of their resources. This article examines the exploitation of both the Earth and women, while highlighting their resistance, using ideas from feminist political ecology.

by Kritika Bhatia   A brain that works differently from the one that is deemed as “normal” through the lens of social convention is...

This article explores how caste is enacted and contested through the body. It examines the historical and contemporary ways in which caste-oppressed communities are policed through physical restriction, dress codes, and spatial control. And also how in turn these communities have resisted such impositions through practices of assertion and refusal.