BookView | The Boneless Mercies and Mercy Killing Teens- The Shades of Grey that Line Womanhood
BookView is a column that analyses literary texts of all genres from an intersectional, feminist standpoint.
BookView is a column that analyses literary texts of all genres from an intersectional, feminist standpoint.
The Sanskaari Girls Book Club is a space for curious feminists to explore a range of readings in a safe, supportive and diverse setting. The club is led by young Indian feminists who are excited to challenge their biases, explore what feminism means in their lives and learn from others. ‘Sanskaari’ is a Hindi word often used to encapsulate a number of so-called desirable qualities in a woman. It can be translated as traditional, well-behaved, conservative and more! We are obviously using the name sarcastically as we are anything but well-behaved! We had our first meetup in November 2018 and have had some really insightful conversations till date. This is a list of all the brilliant, feminist, South Asian and provocative books we read this year:-
For its October read, Sanskaari Girls Book Club was joined by the Queer Resource Centre, One Future Collective in reading Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar.
BookView is a column that analyses literary texts of all genres from an intersectional, feminist standpoint.
BookView is a column that analyses literary texts of all genres from an intersectional, feminist standpoint.
BookView is a column that analyses literary texts of all genres from an intersectional, feminist standpoint.
News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction, written by William Morris.
The true impact of the book doesn’t quite strike you until you’ve actually finished reading The Bastard of Istanbul. The story is too riveting for one to care about anything but the interspersed threads of the characters’ individual stories. Authored by Elif Shafak, parts of the book are set in her motherland Turkey, while others are set in the American cities of Phoenix, Arizona and San Francisco, California. The story traces the lives of four generations of women and how they interconnect with each other, many decades and many hidden secrets later.
BookView is a monthly column that brings together a variety of interesting and intense reviews on books ranging from fiction to poetry to non-fiction.
“In the end it’s not because of Islam that we stay at home, but because of French society.”
Joan Wallach Scott is an American historian who specializes in Gender and Intellectual History in France at Princeton University. This testimony reproduced in her book, The Politics of the Veil, sums up the current plight of Muslim women in France. The book aims to discuss the background, justification and the french discourse on the “veil”. It discusses the issue and subsequent ban of the veil in primary schools in regard to the French form of secularism, which is considered to be one of the hallmarks of the French Republic. French secularity, or the policy Laïcité, as it is better known in France, has many interpretations and forms of application.