Ep 293: Womaning in India With Mahima Vashisht
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Women's Rights Movement
There is this entire narrative about women being victims. And also, there was painting of women as these passive victims who are sitting at home waiting to be rescued by the men. I thinke there was that rape in en upeka district, were where these girls had gone out basically for open deffacion. There's animal attacks, there's children being kidnapped. So, i mean, my sense was that rural wmen have far more agency, and they are able to even lead this movement because their incentives are alined. It is in their interest. They don't want to go out and get assaulted by men in the dark in the fields,. Because they went outside and with all
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