A Comparison Between Women and Men
Tarabai Shinde, ed. and trans. Rosalind O'Hanlon
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Tarabai Shinde's fierce 1882 Marathi attack on men's double standards, with Rosalind O'Hanlon's study of its world.
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Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade · Penguin India · 2011 · 280 pages · Feminist theory · Essays
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Argues that women's right to loiter in the city, without purpose or excuse, is the real test of their access to public space.
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Read in courses on gender, cities and public space.
Instead of asking how to keep women safe by keeping them indoors, this book asks for the right to loiter: to be in public for no reason at all. A lively, argumentative read about cities, safety, class and pleasure.
Themes: Public spaceSafetyCitiesClass and castePleasureMumbai
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Tarabai Shinde, ed. and trans. Rosalind O'Hanlon
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Tarabai Shinde's fierce 1882 Marathi attack on men's double standards, with Rosalind O'Hanlon's study of its world.
Woolf argues that a woman needs money and a room of her own to write.
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The founding argument for women's education and rational equality with men.