What would Hillary Rodham’s life have been like, had she not married Bill Clinton? Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel, Rodham, imagines the scenario, and it would not be a spoiler to reveal that…
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If it is possible to feel outraged over a quarter of a century after an incident made news, then watching the TV film, I Was Lorena Bobbitt brings out a kind of…
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When large chunks of the world seem to be tipping back into conservatism—if not complete right-wing lunacy, the web series, Mrs America, is like a pouring-ice-water-on-the-head kind of reminder that women are…
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As the new Sara Paretsky novel, Dead Land, is released (and immediately picked up), it leads to musings about the female detective in fiction. Paretsky created the wonderful character, V.I.…
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The term ‘male gaze’ was coined by Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema—which, to put it simply, meant that visual media are created for a heterosexual male’s point…
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In a currently popular web series, Panchayat, set in a village in Uttar Pradesh, the Pradhan of the gram panchayat is Manju Devi (played by Neena Gupta), but the actual work is…
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Women have accomplished much, though there are still some major battles being fought over gender parity at work, and the resistance to sexual harassment is gathering strength. However, there are…
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The recently released film, Thappad by Anubhav Sinha, has opened up a much-needed discussion on domestic violence. Thappad (Slap) is about Amrita (played by Taapsee Pannu), who files for divorce when…
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At the recently awarded Oscars, Renee Zellweger won Best Actress for the film Judy, in which he played, to perfection, the role of Hollywood diva Judy Garland. From all accounts, Judy Garland was a successful singer,…
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The introduction, Hardit Kaur Gill, daughter of General Gill, brings to mind a woman brought up in the rarefied, strictly hierarchical world of army cantonments; probably unable to make friends…