Feminist Movement in India
The Marry Wollston Craft, the first Feminist, who demanded her right from her husband. She fight for existing of women. That is the first expression of feminsm. 1829 is the first way to start Feminist movement in India.
Marriage is called as a socially sanctioned sex relationship between man & women. In every family there have a division of power, from which strong part goes to the male as protector & the female & children are under the protection of male.
This is the natural hierarchy for which the Feminists fighting for. Feminists fights for celebracy & equality where sexual relationship must be free love making. It shouldn’t have any obligation or duty.
The Main Purpose of Feminist Movement is to provide women
- Right to fair Wage
- Right to marriage or Divorce at will
- Property right for both man & women
- Right to vote
- Liberate women
- Provide equal status to women
- Liberal or Moderate Feminist
- Socialistic Feminist
- Radical Feminist
- Marxist Feminist
Sarojini Naidu’s Presidential address to the All India Women’s Conference (AIWC) in Bombay in 1930, she addressed that, ”We are not weak, timid, meek women, we hold the courageous Savitri as our ideal, we join how Sita keep her Chastity.”
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi addressed the All India Women’s Conference in 1980 she said, “I have often said that, I am not a Feminist, yet, in my concern for the unprivileged, how can i ignore women who, since the beginning of History, have been dominated over & discriminated against in social custom & in-laws. We need women to be more interested, more alive & more active, not because they are women, but because they do comprise half the human race.”
Feminist movement in India
In the end of the nineteenth century, women in India suffered from disabilities like Child Marriage, practice of Polygyny, sale of Girls for marriage purposes, severe restrictions on widows, non-access to education & restricting oneself to domestic & child rearing functions.
There have some Great Reformers in this Movement who raised their voice against Child Marriage, practice of Polygyny, Puradah system, right of widpw to remarry, fought for the right of inheritence for the women, pleaded for educating women & to treat daughter & sons equally. This Reformers are :
- Justice Ranade
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Economic Planning & Policies for Indian Women: A Historical Analysis
- Land Legislation
- Health & Family welfare policies
- Educational Policies
- Gender Policy for the empowerment of Women-2001
- Economi empowerment of women
- Science & technology
- Violence against women
- Operational strategies
- Institutional mechanism
- Resource management
- Legislation
- Panchayat Raj Institution
- Partnership with Voluntary Organization
- Growth of women agencies
posted by Sagarika Satapathy @ 1:48 PM
6 Comments
6 Comments:
the posts of urs regarding the feminist movement in india was very good n comprehensive. it helped me a lot in my dissertation regarding women and politics in india.
thanx...
y hi its gr8 to know bt this ,there should be more elaboration on same
Actually feminism in India never reached it culminating end or maturity. As it generally got blurred with the prevailing socio economic conditions of the society in different times. Either the movement loosened with the weak integration and patriarchal influence.
Infact if we compare ours with the western feminism we may find the very difference in the way feminism took a sharp turn there. The vital difference aroused more due to the better social stature of westen women compared to Indian one.
Today challenges infront of Indian feminism are quite diverse and prominent. And the most detrimental goal infront of the movement is to divulge the lost identity and social justice for not only Indian women but for the whole womenhood. This could only be solved by empowering women educationally,politically and by providing every and equal opportunity to earn her lost dignity,self confidence and a sense of self esteem.
I married a person selected by my parents. I was not given any dowry. My father was saying that I will get a share in the property so before his death he told me that I will get 1 Indian acre of land. My three brothers agreed to that.He died in 2005 with out a will. For last 5 years one of my brothers is taking the income from all our parents properties. Now my mother is saying after my marriage it is my husbands duty to look after me and he promised her that he will look after me. I want to fight for my right. I am Christian. I know the Mary Roy´s case is there as a precedent but who is implementing the law. I was looking for women right activists websites on the Internet who can help me in this but I do not find anything helpful. I felt that there is a need of a web site which brings together the addresses of all the resources to help women. India is a secular country when I was employed in India I paid equal taxes like men. So I feel it is a females right to have equal share in her parents properties. Some countries in the west prevent parents from unequal sharing of properties among children whatever the gender using law. It is compulsory by law that they share the properties equally among children.
This article smacks of caste and class bias in its approach and orientations,or how else can you forget the contribution of Savitri Bai Phule and Jyothiba Phule
Why don't you edit the text. It's awful when it comes to language, grammar etc. Intent of writing is good but I could not read beyond a few paragraphs. Please take care of the bad/wrong language.
Falguni Goswami
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