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Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History [1] is a 1989 book, edited by Kumkum Sangari [2] and Sudesh Vaid, [3] published by Kali for Women in India and by the Rutgers University Press in the United States. The anthology attempts to explore the inter-relation of patriarchies with political economy, law, religion and culture and to suggest a ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... This is a list of female poets with a Wikipedia page, ... English history writer and poet; Judit Dukai Takách (1795–1836), ...
2014: The first women competed in ski jumping at the Olympics. [155] 2014: Jennifer Welter became the first female non-kicker or placekick-holder to play in a men's pro football game; she played running back for the Texas Revolution. [156] 2014: Abbey Holmes became the first woman to kick 100 goals in one regular season of Australian Rules ...
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.
Anamika (born 17 August 1961) is a contemporary Indian poet, social worker and novelist [1] writing in Hindi, and a critic writing in English. My Typewriter Is My Piano is her collection of poems translated into English. [ 2 ]
The Rig Veda and Upanishads mention several women sages and seers, notably Gargi Vachaknavi and Maitreyi (c. 7th century BCE). [5] Originally, women were allowed to undergo initiation and study the Vedas. In the Dharmasutra of Hathras, it is mentioned that: In Mahabharata, the story of Draupadi's marriage to 5 men is a case in point.
2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Daisy Rockwell (born 1969) [ 1 ] is an American Hindi and Urdu language translator and artist. She has translated a number of classic works of Hindi and Urdu literature, including Upendranath Ashk 's Falling Walls , Bhisham Sahni 's Tamas , and Khadija Mastur 's The Women's Courtyard .
The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. With a decline in their status from the ancient to medieval times ...