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Articles with tag: feminism

Beware of Thyself!

Emma Alam   Aug 9, 2008   interacts: 31

Why women suffer, cannot be explicated clearly, keeping in view the certain facts. Are they, standing themselves in the way of their own development?

Feminist Mumbo-Jumbo!

Pranay Rupani   Jul 21, 2008   interacts: 14

Patriarchal society has ingrained in us so deeply the thought that women are lesser to men, that it is bound to surface (even if it is subconscious).

Feminism Under Veil

Nikhat Rasool   Dec 3, 2007   interacts: 227

By observing the rule of ‘Hijab’, Muslim women make a statement about their identity and their equality as human beings.

Chunari vs. Topi

L Z   Aug 17, 2007   interacts: 5

When will we learn that the 'Daag' isn't imported and not on the 'Chunari' at all.

Window Shopping

Maria Amir   Jun 18, 2007   interacts: 3

Since the female/object in question is not really required to speak or profess her opinions during the proceedings it allows her free reign to watch at will.

Façade of Pseudo Feminism

Dawood Mamoon   Apr 15, 2007   interacts: 59

Pseudo feminism unlike positive feminism is guilty of bringing disaccord to human social lives rather then contributing more to the good of every one.

To Have Loved and Lost

Ibrahim M Khalil   Feb 1, 2007   interacts: 14

I learnt to distinguish between sincere and leering eyes of men, jealous and envious looks of women, how to notice small changes in women’s body, demeanor and how to interpret it

Imposter Syndrome and Emotional Concavity

Sapna Malik   Jan 23, 2007   interacts: 5

Why is it that most women seem to suffer from low self esteem and insecurity while most men seem to think they are the best thing since sliced bread?

War of the Sexes

Gita Roy   Jun 18, 2006   interacts: 40

Why are there so many neurotic women today? Have millions of women always been this way, or is it a problem of our times only? Why — if being feminine can be so pleasant — do some women hold onto their neurosis though they know they can get he

Why Superwomen Have it Bad

Kiran Shah   May 23, 2006   interacts: 32

All we ask is that when we are overburdened, beat up, harassed and looked down on that we get a bit of a helping hand. In those lovely moments of realization my metrosexual man walks into the kitchen, blazing with afternoon heat

Heidi Fleiss and Shahrukh Khan – Spot the Difference!

Farzana Versey   Feb 6, 2006   interacts: 86

Will Heidi’s male brothel empower women? In Shahrukh’s film why does the woman submit to a ghost only when he transforms into a look-alike of her husband? Why has it now become our overarching ambition to reveal liberalism mostly through the l

What will I teach my daughter?

Azmat Hussain   Sep 29, 2005   interacts: 151

I memorized the thirtieth Para by the age of ten.

Let’s talk to Mallika Sherawat’s Breasts

Farzana Versey   Jan 4, 2005   interacts: 49

Does that reduce her in any way? Do you know of any woman who has got silicon implants to help in research or because she wants to be a well-padded mamma to her nursing infant? Was Paula Jones wrong in posing nude to support her kids?

Bubbles

Amrita Rajan   Jan 3, 2005   interacts: 9

She was brought up to be respectful, obedient, well behaved and the perfect wife. It didn’t matter that she was headstrong, rebellious, artistic and just enough aware of the world in her time to be dissatisfied with the scope of life offered to her.

Western Feminism and South Asian Women

Godot    Dec 30, 2004   interacts: 182

The gander that’s caught in New York cannot be cooked in Nowshehra

Searching for Infantopia

Shandana Minhas   Apr 8, 2004   interacts: 8

Motherhood is only one aspect of the female of the species. The growing number of early childhood care and educational initiatives is one of the most obvious indications of this shift in attitude.

Founding Mothers

Yasser Latif Hamdani   Nov 24, 2003   interacts: 67

The most famous image of the Pakistan Movement is when a young woman climbed up atop the civil secretariat building in Lahore and planted the league flag instead instead of the union jack.

The Vagina Monologues

Khadija Hassan   Jul 29, 2003   interacts: 300

One Eve banished us from Heaven. Another is helping us discover the heaven within ourselves. One Eve is blamed in Western theology for initiating sin and instilling self-loathing in her daughters.

Study in Black

Bina Shah   Mar 12, 2000   interacts: 168

Why did a man get to wear white and a woman black?

Of Boylove and Boylovers

Sabia Ahmed   Aug 31, 1999   interacts: 223

We (even in the oh-so-liberal West) live in a more conformist society that we are led to believe

The Bride Burning

Begum F Shahnaz   Nov 23, 1998   interacts: 5

Mankind will not stand by and witness our burning:  Mankind will not immolate truth.

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