Michel Foucault

Politics of Body: Part One- Female Body

Today’s feminist discourse often criticises age old Indian societal cliché- ‘boys should not cry and girls should not laugh loudly in public’. The term ‘politics of body’ constitutes two concepts in which the first concept ‘politics’ signifies the power or power relation and ‘body’ signifies the human body on which this power is exercised.

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Are Women Really Passive Agents?

The struggle of women stands aloof from what goes loud or visible in the broader media or any visible streamline. Be it regional, domestic, or international pretext, the issues of women and with that the very idea of “non-inclusiveness “comes as natural as anything. What surprising is the fact that how even after being established as exclusionary and alien, these issue and women as an entity are less heard of?

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