Is Your Beloved Daughter Ready to get Married? – Bhavya Tripathi

If you are friends with me on Facebook, you might have seen my latest update where I shared an ad for a bridal course, on how to be the perfect wife for future brides. For those of you who aren’t here it is: My gut reaction, when I saw this ad, was my usual feminist ranting: “How dare they trivialize women as just wives, or … Continue reading Is Your Beloved Daughter Ready to get Married? – Bhavya Tripathi

Will academia ever graduate from sexism? – Heather Mcrobie

There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives, goes the famous Audre Lorde quotation. Its implications lend themselves well to both issues of gender and issues of education in its various forms – threads that run throughout the facets of our lives, our various public and private manifestations of self. In the case of continued gender … Continue reading Will academia ever graduate from sexism? – Heather Mcrobie