What to g(end)er by Sagarika https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw Made with a little empathy en-us 2021-12-16 12:43:57 UTC 2025-10-23 22:58:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f465.png sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955520749 2021-12-19 14:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955520749 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955531264 2021-12-19 14:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955531264 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955544635 A Question of Silence is a book by Janaki Nair and Mary E. John which has an introduction which is a detailed overview on the concepts covered in the different essays in the book by various authors.  It sheds light on the secrecy or taboos and questions regarding sexuality and sex in India in different major spheres like political, social, economical etc., either in the past or present. It discusses the discovery of golden ages to the representation of 'sex' in various fields.

]]> 2021-12-19 14:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955544635 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955549625 2021-12-19 14:29:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955549625 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955549880 2021-12-19 14:29:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955549880 sreeshma_ravisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955586511 2021-12-19 15:09:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955586511 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955779510 Did it allow you to think more critically/analytically about society? How did it do this?]]> 2021-12-19 18:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955779510 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955782212 Did it challenge any of your previously-held ideas?]]> 2021-12-19 18:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955782212 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955790559 Does it raise questions for our understanding of the week’s topic?]]> 2021-12-19 19:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955790559 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955793618 Were there any conceptual connections with other readings or topics from the course? ]]> 2021-12-19 19:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955793618 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955803401 Were there any limitations of the text? (e.g., in terms of scope, region, the generalisations it draws in making its claim.)]]> 2021-12-19 19:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1955803401 The missionary divya_velayudhansias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1956626603   Consolidation of  missionary discourse can be understood. The involvement of the indigenous people provided ground support for documenting the missionary discourse. If journals and the other sources cannot be read for any specific answers there are other ways to make the text yield its historicity which further made the attempt of Hayden white so possible that is to read the context from the very surface of the text. The ideological tone and cast of the missionary was largely shaped by the financial goals. 



]]> 2021-12-20 09:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1956626603 Geetha v -gender pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1956972633 Geetha V dissects gender norms, how they are created, how they influence or behavior and how they act in relation to other sociological systems like religion, caste, class.
She talks about the three ways that gender is interpreted. In the first chapter she mostly focuses on religious, scientific, political viewpoints of gender .

]]> 2021-12-20 13:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1956972633 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957277093 2021-12-20 16:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957277093 sreeshma_ravisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957279644 2021-12-20 16:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957279644 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957405926 2021-12-20 17:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957405926 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957448566 2021-12-20 18:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957448566 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957454398 2021-12-20 18:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957454398 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957468086 2021-12-20 18:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957468086 keya_singhsias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957513342 2021-12-20 18:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957513342 keya_singhsias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957514756 2021-12-20 18:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957514756 keya_singhsias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957515887 2021-12-20 18:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957515887 keya_singhsias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957516452 2021-12-20 18:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957516452 keya_singhsias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957517034 2021-12-20 18:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957517034 keya_singhsias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957517652 2021-12-20 18:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957517652 keya_singhsias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957518403 2021-12-20 18:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957518403 keya_singhsias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957519006 2021-12-20 18:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957519006 keya_singhsias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957519800 2021-12-20 18:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957519800 keya_singhsias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957520326 2021-12-20 18:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957520326 sreeshma_ravisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957551061 2021-12-20 19:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957551061 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957553123 2021-12-20 19:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957553123 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957560564 Looking at it through a religious viewpoint- religious texts claimed that women were sinful, inferior and conniving and that men as noble intelligent beings had a duty to control them  She also points out the fact that these texts can be contradictory in their description of women.  ]]> 2021-12-20 19:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957560564 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957563523 In the 18th century science became more credible and popular and people used it to back up gender stereotypes. They claimed that the differences between men and women weren't just genital and that their different set of hormones dictated their behavior but this too was disproved by several experiments that were conducted.]]> 2021-12-20 19:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957563523 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957564361 In the 18th century on account of several political movements people started seeing the world as a place where they had the power to make and change laws not just abide by them. After the French revolution in 1789, revolutionaries declared that all humans were equal and free. Women argued that if all humans were in fact equal and free then did women not deserve the same rights as men? . But they were shot down by people that claimed that although they were equal they did not deserve the same rights as men as they did not possess any reasoning ability or critical thinking skills.  ]]> 2021-12-20 19:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957564361 V. Geetha - Gender sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957893019 2021-12-21 01:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957893019 Nakul Singh Sawhney - Izzatnagari Ki Asabhya Betiyan ( The Immoral Daughters in the Land of Honour ) sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957905040 2021-12-21 01:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957905040 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957919174 Nakul Singh Sawhney created a documentary on the families belonging to the land of honour, where families have chosen their respect in the village to be a greater asset than their love for their own children. So much so, that these families are even ready to sacrifice the lives of their kids. From Khap members to the police itself, we see a lot of people responsible for saving lives, but they chose to take lives instead, again, all in the name of honour.]]> 2021-12-21 01:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957919174 Problems of the Khap Members, relating to the "same gotra issue": sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957919982 1. "Khap Panchayats" are essentially self-appointed bodies dominated by influential men from the Jat community.
They believed that things that educated young children are the root cause of people marrying whoever they wish to.

2. Khap members openly mentioned Co-Ed schools, education, Television, Mobiles to be active problems and not solutions in making the society aware of how the world is actually supposed to be.

3. Khap members also formulated a system of some sort wherein they boycotted families whose kids were involved in same gotra marriages. We see a case wherein this family wasn't even provided a clay pot for the ashes of their son who was murdered by the khap members for marrying in the same gotra.

4. Khap members are so determined in ruining the lives of the innocent that despite being in jail, they were able to hire contract killers to come after people who went against them.]]> 2021-12-21 01:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957919982 Mary. E. John and Janaki Nair - A Question of Silence: The Sexual Economies of Modern India sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957921506 2021-12-21 01:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957921506 Lata Mani - Contentious Traditions The Debate on Sati sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957932241 2021-12-21 01:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957932241 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957949065 2021-12-21 01:51:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957949065 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957952102 2021-12-21 01:53:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957952102 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957954401 2021-12-21 01:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957954401 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957972740 The major themes or concepts covered in the essays are covered in the introduction in brief. ]]> 2021-12-21 02:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957972740 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957973385 The book makes room for more wide-ranging approaches for tackling the sexual economies of desire and violence among men and women in modern India.  ]]> 2021-12-21 02:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1957973385 A way to patriarchy divya_velayudhansias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958148325 There is an expansion in the horizon of analysis from the early journals of the baptist to the trajectory of nineteenth century discourse. Baptistic linguistic abilities were crticised. And Baptists defended themselves by claiming tha every translation was verified by pundits.However, the underlying superiority of the European over indiginous knowledge can be viewed. Here the representation of pundits itself bring out the hidden male superiority.]]> 2021-12-21 04:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958148325 Lata Mani sreeshma_ravisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958148361 Latha Mani argues that the sati debate in the early nineteenth century marginalized its very subject ,the widow. The book dissects the idea of colonialists , nationalists , traditionalist and Christian missionaries and attempts to draw a similie between them. Through the medium of post-nationalist , post-orientalist and post colonialist feminist approach , Latha Mani challenges the notion that sati was a voluntary and religious act of wifely devotion.The books make a serious attempt to bring to the forefront the subaltern agency of the widow and materiality of her suffering.]]> 2021-12-21 04:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958148361 sreeshma_ravisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958150377 Also the book talks about how the popularization of the vernacular press encouraged debates around the topic of Sati. It also addresses the views of the popular newspapers of the time on Sati and talks about the connection between property laws and Sati.]]> 2021-12-21 04:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958150377 Religion and division divya_velayudhansias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958154569 Appropriation of Hindoos and sati serve as the milestone of analysis when considering the social constructs of the society. Mythological explanation of the Hindoos often forms the ground for philosophical thoughts as well. Religious, philosophical and mythological angles of the Hindoos helps to learn then hierarchisized notion of society. ]]> 2021-12-21 04:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958154569 Interesting points sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958174471 The idea of sati which is one of the most discussed issue since past has evoked my thoughts to think about the various realms of gender discussion faced in the society even now.

]]> 2021-12-21 04:59:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958174471 Baptism divya_velayudhansias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958175774 In the Indian Publications attention to questions of scripture and insistence on the safety of Sati’s prohibition was well considered through Baptism. Practical concerns remained paramount for the East India company officials and administrators as the only ones in the final analysis with the power to legislate against widow burning. Effects of the consolidation of missionary discourse after 1813 led to legalization of missionary activity in that year including the Baptists in the colony a security of tenure that they had not enjoyed.  The practices of sati brought in the evil notion of the society that needs to be still examines with clear supervision. The involvement of women in philanthropy also stood out when considering the gender aspects which further affected their labour and work.]]> 2021-12-21 05:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958175774 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958182244 2021-12-21 05:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958182244 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958192143 While the introduction seemed to be more centered around the national and colonial bubbles, the fact that the authors brought up discussions about gender and sex with time as a dependent from the past to present during the midst of the cyclone of taboo. ]]> 2021-12-21 05:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958192143 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958192749 2021-12-21 05:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958192749 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958196234 2021-12-21 05:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958196234 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958196556 2021-12-21 05:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958196556 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958197020 2021-12-21 05:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958197020 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958216070   Makes one think if sexuality is an 'issue' that certain groups of society only have. The author mentions how certain concepts like sati, celibacy, etc., are practiced by middle class and upper middle class. This shows or indicates the vulnerability of this social group and how it is prone to fantasies.  ]]> 2021-12-21 05:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958216070 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958218615 2021-12-21 05:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958218615 Is gender a natural category or a social construct? How does gender determine social order and power relations? How have these power relations been questioned and challenged? pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958220404 2021-12-21 05:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958220404 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958321490
  •  'Sexuality': A Short Conceptual Genealogy
  •  The Initiatives of Feminism
  •  The Question of Modernity 
  •  Recovering a Golden Age
  •  The Emergence of New Sexual Economics 
  •  The Ideal of Celibacy   
  •  Demography 
  •  Anthropology
  •  Cinema and the Media  
  •  Alternate Sexualities  

]]> 2021-12-21 07:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1958321490 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959135957 It made us go deeper into the topics we were studying. It made us think more about the societal systems that are at hand when perpetuating gender stereotypes. Earlier when we thought of labels we would see the people behind them but now we see them as they are, devices of restriction. It makes us think if we restrict people in order to label them or if we label people so that we can restrict them. It also made us question who created these stereotypes?. We also learned that there was a lot more to gender than we had thought and that it was a broad term which housed several other concepts.

]]> 2021-12-21 16:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959135957 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959147206 While reading about everything we actually found that when we were talking about gender we couldn't talk about it without bringing in caste, class or religion and we realized that we can’t talk about a single aspect of society without bringing in the others because all of them affect us in equal stead. Relating to Nakul Singh's doc, honour killings of people marrying in the same gotra has a lot to connect with gender, as girls are blamed to be disrespectful and a disgrace to the family. This issue reached to the extent that people were okay with their families marrying in different religions, but not the same gotra. Mostly women have been oppressed under this issue, which has led to countless number of  cases of missing women who in real life end up dead or married off in secret forcefully.
When we talk about the Lata Mani reading,  the practice of sati got connected which can actually be considered as a social evil as well. Sati in a large way connects to the gendered social evils in society.
]]> 2021-12-21 16:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959147206 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959154617 It made us think about how norms and ideals are so powerful because while everyone can’t adhere to them they seem universal. For example women from the lower class  can’t adhere to the norm of staying at home and taking care of their family because they have to work in order to survive 
It also challenged our idea of the fat that people who belong to the lower class are more likely to practice Sati as we found that people from the upper and middle lass of India were equally or even more likely to practice Sati and hold on to outdated notions like viewing women as objects.
It challenged the idea of sati. The idea of widow burning since olden times are mostly debated which added on to the historic social evil constructs. But it is always a doubtful question whether sati is abolished even in this 21st century advanced era.
We also considered the abolition of sati was completely for the justice of women but the text reflects the fact that even the colonizers or Christian missionaries considered sati as a tool to oppose or to defend the state.so the justice of women was not their primary concern.

]]> 2021-12-21 16:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959154617 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959156924 Overall we found the texts to be significant in the ideas that it presented and we found the readings to be incredibly interesting. However we did see a few pitfalls with the readings. We found that most of the vocabulary was quite hard to understand particularly in Lata Mani’s text. We also found that the ideas presented were repeated again and again and it meandered a bit before a point was made. ]]> 2021-12-21 16:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959156924 sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959160640
  • Makes us question importance of the label for someone's place/ value in society. 
  • Gender is evolving constantly- do we need gender anymore?
  • Are men and women really equal or is equality defined differently?
  • Are traditions and customs relating to gender still needed, even when they don't satisfy the needs of people and instead go against them?
  • Should the biological difference to be praised as a social evil?
    • ]]>     2021-12-21 16:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959160640     Work cited sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959173471
  • Geetha, V. Gender (Theorizing Feminism). UK ed., Bhatkal and Sen, 2002.
  • “Izzatnagari Ki Asabhya Betiyaan Ll Immoral Daughters in the Land of Honour.” YouTube, uploaded by Nakul Sawhney, 15 Jan. 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJ6jMxIysg&feature=youtu.be
  • Nair, Janaki, and Mary John. A Question of Silence: The Sexual Economies of Modern India. Zed Books, 2000.
  • Mani, Lata, et al. Contentious Traditions. Amsterdam University Press, 1998.
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    ]]>     2021-12-21 16:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959173471     sagarika_reddysias211 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959191481 2021-12-21 17:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959191481 pritha_ramamoorthisias21 https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959216723 While going through the readings what we've seen is that gender is a social construct impressed upon us by societal power systems, and that our gender dictates what role we play in society creating an unfair power struggle. We've also seen that these norms have been challenged whether it be by revolutionaries calling for the abolishment of Sati or by women taking a stand for themselves in a society that's against them. Although there is a lot of work to be done in the realm of gender, there is a lot of progress being made as well.]]> 2021-12-21 17:18:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sagarika_reddysias211/uohs8k0u298vt0hw/wish/1959216723