Manjima Bhattacharjya has a PhD in sociology and has been active in the Indian women's movement for over ten years. She has worked with the feminist resource centre Jagori, and with the international secretariat of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Geneva.
She is from the younger generation of feminists in India who have tried to build on the struggles of earlier generations using new ways of networking and campaigning.
Her column ‘Third Wave’ for Infochange refers to the third wave of feminism, which is where she locates herself. The third wave essentially covers perspectives from those marginalised from previous 'waves' of feminism -- women of colour, women from the South, young women. As a term it also represents how feminist struggles manifest themselves in today's times when we are enjoying many of the benefits of second wave feminism. ‘Third Wave’ provides the perspective of a young feminist from the global South.
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Rumble in the desert
On May 17, 2009, four women were elected to the Kuwaiti parliament as MPs
for the first time ever, spelling progress and change in the region. Indeed, the
Middle East has been a black hole in the history of feminism, says Manjima Bhattacharjya,and we have only just begun to understand the unique issues and
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Cosmetic changes on violence against women?
For 15 years the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women has helped bring VAW into the public domain as something more than a ‘private issue’. But have all these conceptual breakthroughs trickled down to the ground, asks Manjima Bhattacharjya More... |
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Marching ahead
Manjima Bhattacharjya traces the history of March 8, International Women’s Day, back to the 1857 agitation for dignity and equality in the workplace, a battle not yet won More... |
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Morality through the ages: Old strategies, new threats
The Indian State and citizens are pledging to fight against political terror. But what about the sexual terror that all women have faced, survived and continue to silently battle? Why has no government ever called for a war against this kind of terror, asks Manjima Bhattacharjya More... |
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Another kind of terror
The Indian State and citizens are pledging to fight against political terror. But what about the sexual terror that all women have faced, survived and continue to silently battle? Why has no government ever called for a war against this kind of terror, asks Manjima Bhattacharjya More... |
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A tale of two speeches
When a black woman with empathy and a single mother who writes about magic speak about empathy, service and compassion on graduation day at Stanford and Harvard, does it finally signify that values once rejected as ‘feminine’ and invalid are finding a voice and a space, asks Manjima Bhattacharjya as she flags off a new column on feminism’s Third Wave More... |
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