Caste, Gender & Anti-Islamophobic Struggles in South India: Networked Solidarities & Divergences
Thursday, Apr 26, 2018 | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
691 Barrows Hall
Location is ADA accessible
Townsend Center & CRG Working Group on Muslim Identities & Cultures presents:
“Caste, Gender & Anti-Islamophobic Struggles in South India: Networked Solidarities & Divergences”
A talk by Cynthia Stephen
Cynthia Stephen is an independent social policy researcher and analyst and independent journalist. She is also a well-known trainer on Gender, policy and Development issues. She has written a number of articles for newspapers, magazines, and journals as well as contributed chapters to several books including on the girl child and experiences of discrimination in higher education in India. Her body of work includes leadership in several people’s initiatives for justice, in large country-wide women’s empowerment groups, and theoretical work on women’s concerns from the unrecognized perspective of women and girls from the large number of marginalised sections in India. She represents three of them – being a woman, a religious minority (in India), and also being identified with the Dalit community, from among the former untouchables in India. She is President of the Training, Editorial and Development Services Trust, (TEDS Trust), and is based in Bangalore, India.
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________. “Feminism And Dalit Women In India,” Counter Currents.
________. “India, the Idea of a Nation, And the Subaltern Woman,” Savari.