Women In The Half Mother By Shahnaz Bashir

Through this novel, the author portrays the raw reality of hardship that has been, and continues to be endured by the individuals of Afghanistan, and how the women are more violated. With poverty and abuse doing their respective rounds in the warzone, life in general has become one with grief and

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of South Asia. It borders Pakistan and India in the Himalayan Mountains. This landscape is known for its raw natural beauty and has stood out in the history and folklore of the Indian subcontinent. At one point in time, Kashmir was aptly named "paradise on Earth". Kashmir excels at diversity. People from all over the world many different religious backgrounds and even more diverse dialects frequent the land. Today however, the Kashmir region is the center a multidimensional problem, with religious hostilities taking center stage.

Mahasweta Devi’s short story, “Giribala,” is about the life of Giribala, a girl of Talsana village located in India. Born into a caste in a time when it was still customary to pay a bride-price, Giri is sold to Aulchand by her father. From this point on, we see a series of unfortunate, tragic events that take place in Giri’s life as a result of the circumstances surrounding Giri’s life. There are many issues in Giri’s life in India that Devi highlights to readers. First, the economic instability of the village leads to an extremely poor quality of life for the lower, working classes. Next, the cruel role of women determined by men in society is to either satisfy the sexual desires of men or to reproduce offspring who can work or be sold off to marriages. There are also other social norms and beliefs which discriminate against women that will be discussed.

Through exploring transitions, one may face challenging and conflicting barriers that prevent an escape to the new world of beliefs and attitudes. However, these obstacles may be overcome to result in growth and change. The drama text “Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah, soft revolution,” by Alana Valentine and “Shrinking women” by Lily Myers focuses on the detailed harsh nature of obstacles when complying with a shift to the new world. In “Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah, soft revolution,” Shafana a young Afghanistan- Australian Muslim migrant ventures onto a spiritually journey during which she particularly explores the difficulty of decision making and the homogonous of humanity. Shrinking Women exposes the obstacle of the pressure on women to maintain a slim body image while complying with their mother’s traditions.

A fresh, personal, bottom-up approach to the women’s labor movement in the early 20th century

Throughout Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, the reader observes many injustices committed due to the presence of the Taliban and cultural conflict in Afghanistan. One of the most concerning issues in Afghanistan is the mistreatment and inequality that women face on a daily basis due to Taliban mandates. Women in Afghanistan are treated as inferior beings to men and are unable to stand up for themselves due the laws the Taliban enforces. Hosseini uses the wives of Amir and Hassan, Soraya and Farzana, to represent the injustices to which women in Afghanistan are subjected.

The purpose of this reaction paper is to examine the thoughts and feelings of the readings for the purpose of the interjection of opinion. Chapter forty, discuss in aspect violence against women in globally. In relation to chapter thirty- eight, the status of women. Chapter forty previews the gender discerning abortions and killing a child within their birth year. Chapter forty also discusses the severing of female organs, and premature marriage of young girls, intimate partner violence, dowry deaths, honor killings and what can be done to combat the issue of violence against women.

An event that has relation to war today is the tension in the northern region of India, Punjab, where the Sikh holy book was ripped up and thrown. Many Sikhs gathered in a peaceful protest, trying to bring to justice the people who were responsible, but the police ended up shooting and killing two peaceful protestors. Simran Jeet Singh, is one of the authors, who writes on this topic. He takes up this topic, because it represents part of the unjust that happened to Sikhs in 1984 where they were killed and murdered in the thousands by the Indian government. Singh says, “I was born in the United States in the summer of 1984, during the height of the anti- Sikh violence in Punjab” (Singh 1). He goes on to say how he feels the pain of his Sikh brothers and sisters who were killed in the year 1984, for their religious beliefs. Background about Singh shows us the importance of mediated narratives, as they show that Singh is trying to raise awareness about the issues going on in Punjab in an attempt to try to avoid the destruction that happened in 1984. Another one of these authors is Nirmala Ganapathy, who is part of The Straits Times. She takes up the same interest as Singh, as she works to raise awareness on the issues affecting her homeland of India. She writes about why Sikhs have been blocking major roads in India and the influence this has. Her curiosity is what has

Tehmina Durrani is a prominent woman writer of Pakistan. She writes about the subordinated and marginal status of women in Pakistani society. She portrays the miserable plight of women in a so-called democratic country. Her works reflect female subjugation and sufferings encountered by the majority of women in the conservative milieu of Pakistan. She articulates her own experiences and holds the political, religious and social mechanism responsible for such plight of women in society. The present paper analyses her autobiographical novel My Feudal Lord and aims at studying various discourses like patriarchy, feudalism, misinterpretation of religion and social taboos, which, according to the novelist, are responsible for the oppression of women

“More than 100 million women are missing” (p. xv), estimated Amartya Sen, a Nobel Prize-winning economist. This is one of the first new things that I learned and already it immediately shocked me, so much so, that I had trouble believing it. But after becoming aware that follow-up studies were conducted and how they also still calculated millions upon millions of “missing women” (p. xv), I thought that by any estimate that it is pure insanity. That is such a huge number and it hurts me to think about all those women’s lives that could have been a reality, but instead have had the gift of life taken away from them. This number is the result of the oppression and discrimination that women throughout the world face. This is a human rights abuse of a momentous scale.

Traditionally, an Indian woman had only four roles and those were; Her role as a daughter, wife, sister, and lastly, a mother. The women in today’s time however are experiencing far reaching changes and are entering into new fields that were unknown to them. They are actively participating in social, economic and political activities. Unlike the older times, women today have received higher education.

Recent feminist historiography by scholars like Urvashi Butalia has demonstrated that amid Partition, abducting women from the other group turned into a typical approach to shame the Muslim/Hindu/Sikh "other;" the apportionment of ladies from the other group was an approach to influence the collective honor, religious sentiment and the physical propagation of that group. This was the condition of the state after Partition. Nationalist discourse not just developed women as agents of ethnic community and honor; they additionally just valorised the Hindu/Sikh woman who, under danger of assault or kidnapping, conferred suicide and in this way shielded her honor. As obvious in Chand's remark, it was the subjectivity of women who submitted suicide

The objective readership of my novel will comprise youth with a flair for novelty and curiosity, to know more about this maligned society and relationship between the old and the young. This novel will go a long way among those people, who wants to understand the havoc caused by the partition of India in 1947. The characters of the book will depict their relationship and the plight they suffered from the hands of their own. In a way the contents are the ugly truth of the society, impact of the commercial world and the perverted nature of the characters.

Official documents have little say about women and children of the Partition as they were viewed as a collective. Earlier reports on the abduction of women only gave the reader the statistics and brief statements that glorified community nationalism rather than the victims itself. Many failed to dwell into the individual trauma of this particular group (Menon & Bhasin, 1998, p.11). Rani’s testimony was significant in that not only it opened us to another outlook from a witness point of view; it also revealed that people who were not physically involved were also affected psychologically. This was also the only part in the testimony where Rani displayed sympathy and grievance. Her sensitivity and deep connection with these victims correlated with age and gender. Her emphasis on the words ‘young’ and ‘girl’ throughout her testimony evoked our sense of disbelief that people would do such inhumane things to each other (cited in Butalia, 2000, p.271). Her hesitant manner, evident

She makes an important point when trying to go beyond the female (otherness), by paying careful attention to differences among women themselves, and by putting emphasize on the multiple realties that women faces, and by that trying to uncover universalist interpretations (Parpart and Marchand 1995:6). She reveals the inadequacy of binary categories by showing us how power is defined in binary terms, between the people who have (men) and the people who do not (women). This is a consequence of seeing women as a homogenous group, and contributes to the reinforcement of the binary division between men and women (Mohanty 1991:64). By assuming that women are a already constituted group with the same experiences and interests, gender is looked upon as something that can be applied cross cultures (Mohanty 1991:54), and it also produces an assumption about the “average third world woman” as poor and uneducated, in contrast to the educated, modern Western women (Mohanty 1991:56). Implicit in the binary analytic lies the assumption that the third world woman only can be liberated through western rationality. Mohanty is making an important point when emphasising the need to challenge these objectifications (Udayagiri 1995:163).