Tarabai Shinde: Why she kicks ass
- She was a feminist activist who protested patriarchy and caste, in 19th century India.
- She is known for her published work, Stri Purush Tulana (“A Comparison Between Women and Men”), which is a critique of upper-caste patriarchy, and is often considered the first modern Indian feminist text.
- It was very controversial for its time in challenging the Hindu religious scriptures themselves as a source of women’s oppression, a view that continues to be controversial and debated today.
- Stri Purush Tulana was written in response to an article which appeared in 1881, in Pune Vaibhav, an orthodox newspaper published from Pune, about a criminal case against a young Brahmin (upper-caste) widow, Vijayalakshmi in Surat, who had been convicted of murdering her illegitimate son for the fear of public disgrace and ostracism.
- Having worked with upper-caste widows who were forbidden to remarry, Shinde was well aware of incidents of widows being impregnated by relatives. The book analyzed the tightrope women must walk between the “good woman” and the “prostitute”. The book was printed at Shri Shivjai Press, Pune, in 1882 with 500 copies at cost nine annas, but hostile reception by contemporary society and press, meant that she did not publish again.
1. more number of people gots to be aware of Tarabai Shinde
2. patriarchy got its ass kicked
3. it should matter that the woman kicked ass more than 200 years ago
4. it should matter coz even now men havent got balls to kick patriarchy in the ass the way she did
5. it shouldnt matter if A WOMAN kicked some patriarchy ass coz men and women are equal
