Hey guys
:) I am a student at The University of Westminster in London and I am doing a project on FEMINISM, in particular 'FEMINISM IN ASIA'
<3 The production crew would love to have REAL statements from REAL PEOPLE about FEMINISM
<3 THE PROJECT IS A LIVE INSTALLATION and will be filmed if you would love to see it! The initial idea is to create an atmosphere for a child by highlighting the underlying true meaning of Feminism and educating them about the future of Feminism. We would love some input no matter how big or small, if you have opinions, posters, pictures, anything that makes you think Feminism is important
(: thank you, much love
According to Chaudhuri, unlike the Western feminist movement, India's movement was initiated by men , and later joined by women. But feminism as an initiative by women started independently a little later in Maharashtra by pioneering advocates of women's rights and education, Savitribai Phule , who started the first school for girls in India, Tarabai Shinde who wrote India's first feminist text, and Pandita Ramabai who criticized patriarchy and caste-system in Hinduism, married outside her caste and converted to Christianity. The efforts of Bengali reformers included abolishing sati, which was a widow's death by burning on her husband's funeral pyre, abolishing the custom of child marriage, abolishing the disfiguring of widows, introducing the marriage of upper caste Hindu widows, promoting women's education, obtaining legal rights for women to own property, and requiring the law to acknowledge women's status by granting them basic rights ...
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