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Kamla Bhasin (24 April 1946 – 25 September 2021) was an Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist. Bhasin's work, that began in 1970, focused on gender education , human development and the media.
Thiagalingam's Tribu is a new addition to Tamil literature. Brave fiction. This novel is the main novel in Tamil about the gender identity and its change It presents a compelling inquiry into the quality and merits of the age-old values that Tamils have built and preserved. Not for intellectual entertainment Out of humanitarian concern. [6]
Tamil sexual minorities are Tamil people who do not conform to heterosexual gender norms. They may identify as LGBTQIA . [ citation needed ] It has been estimated that India has a population of 2.5 million homosexuals , [ 1 ] though not all of them are Tamil, and not all Tamils live in India.
V. Geetha is an Indian feminist activist who writes on issues related to caste, gender, education and civil rights. [1] [2] She operates from Madras (now known as Chennai) and has carried out research on the nature and proliferation of NGOs operating in Tamil Nadu.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Tamil Nadu are the most progressive among all states of India. [2] [3] Tamil Nadu was the first state in India to introduce a transgender welfare policy, wherein transgender individuals can access free gender affirmation surgery in government hospitals and various other benefits and rights.
The book Recasting Women, in using gender as category of analysis in their study of Colonial India, reworked our notions of social reform. The authors used women's question as entry point to recast our understanding of social reform in colonial India. Thus, the book foregrounds a different kind of gender history. The authors have shown through ...
Gender sensitization is the process teaching of gender sensitivity and encouragement of behavior modification through raising awareness of gender equality concerns. [1] In other words, it is the process of making people aware of gender equality or the lack of to the need to eliminate gender discrimination .
Dalit literature in Tamil Nadu has a significant historical context, emerging prominently in the late 19th century through the efforts of educated members of the Parayar community, a Scheduled Caste in Tamil Nadu, in the late 19th century. Iyothee Thass Pandithar, a prominent leader among them, worked to build a new casteless Tamil society ...