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The Relationship Between Westernization and Indian Gender Identity
There's an incredibly strong mind-body dualist assumption within the Western gender identity doctrine. To try and apply that idea to the Indian context seems mad, she says. Do you think there's a correlation between one's kind of how Westernized one is and how you regard this issue? Oh, absolutely,absolutely. The groups that are the loudest will have a large majority of their arguments borrowed from the West. It so sounds incredibly familiar, from my experience in Western academic spaces.