Tuesday, January 25, 2011

News at Eleven: For Dalit women, oppression often means

sexual subjugation too. Ms. [Meena] Kandasamy's poems are informed by a sense of gender relations that suggest being a woman in a largely patriarchal society is another form of being lower caste.

"You don't have to be a Dalit--by being a woman the caste is in you," she said.

from Wall Street Journal: India Real Time: A Female Dalit Poet Fights Back in Verse

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