Indian Association for Women's Studies

Watch | 'Exception to Marital Rape Is Violence Against Women': SC Advocate Vrinda Grover

January 28, 2022

As the Delhi high court is hearing petitions seeking criminalisation of marital rape and challenging the exception 2 in Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code,The Wire discusses with Supreme Court advocate Vrinda Grover notions of consent, violence against women and the idea of ‘marriage strike’. Watch the full video here

Noted feminist and Assam’s first woman doctoral graduate in English Aparna Dutta Mahanta dies at 75

January 28, 2022

Dibrugarh (Assam), Jan 27 (PTI) Noted feminist and Assam’s first woman doctoral graduate in English literature, Aparna Dutta Mahanta, has died at a state-run hospital here, doctors said on Thursday. She was 75, and is survived by her husband, noted scientist Dr Paramananda Mahanta, a son and a daughter. Mahanta did her masters in English Literature from Gauhati University as well as the University of Leeds under a British Council scholarship programme. She spent her professional life as a professor in the English Department of Dibrugarh University and was the founding director of the Women’s Study Centre in the varsity. Mahanta was one of the pioneers of modern feminist movement in Assam. She had authored many books and started Assamese magazine ‘Aideur Jonaki Baat’ on women’s issues. Read the original article here

IAWS Tribute to Prof. Aparna Dutta-Mahanta (20-8-1946 to 26-1-2022)

January 28, 2022

IAWS Tribute to Prof. Aparna Dutta-Mahanta (20-8-1946 to 26-1-2022) In passing away of Prof. Aparna Dutta-Mahanta the women’s studies and women’s rights movement not only in the North-East region but all over India has felt an irreparable loss. Dr. Aparna Mahanto was a Retired Professor of the Department of English, Dibrugarh, a Founder Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies, Dibrugarh University, a life member of Indian Association for Women’s Studies and a veteran women's rights activist who kept in touch with women’s studies centres and women’s organisations all over India. She was a member of IAWS national executive Committee and Coordinator of North Eastern region during 200508. She was highly respected throughout India and represented the Northeast Region in the national gatherings. She was highly revered for her writings in Assamese and English on all contemporary challenges faced by people in general and women in particular, in the North Eastern states from the perspective of human rights and women’s rights. In her highly acclaimed book entitled, Nareebad- Part 1 and part 2, Prof. Aparna Mahanta charted the herstory of feminist movement in its various trajectories across histories and geographies. Her another celebrated book was Journey of Assamese Women (1836-1937) that contextualised Assamese women’s predicaments in the colonial political economy shaped by the British rulers. Throughout her academically active life of over 50 decades, Aparnadi had been an epitome of courage, supporter of feminist praxis and powerhouse of energy. She took part in the National Conferences of IAWS and women's rights movements took a pro-active interest in the deliberations, polemics and resolutions passed by the delegates, indulged in animated debates, led rallies and addressed public meetings at the end of the conference during the 1980s and 1990s. She was a member of Mahila Samakhya Project of Government of Assam. She was actively involved in the women’s movement in Assam till the end. At the seminar on 25-22020 on “Prevention and Abolition of the Practice of Witch Hunting” at Indira Miri Conference Hall of Dibrugarh University, she had urged the audience not to look at witch hunting as an isolated issue but within a larger web of women-related crimes as well as the property rights of women and she also pointed out how women in matrilineal societies too become victims of witch hunting. IAWS heartfelt condolences to the family members and friends of Prof. Aparna Dutta. Salute to this brave soul. Rest in power Prof. Aparna Dutta. In solidarity, Indian Association for Women’s Studies Download the original file here

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Watch | 'Exception to Marital Rape Is Violence Against Women': SC Advocate Vrinda Grover

January 28, 2022

Noted feminist and Assam’s first woman doctoral graduate in English Aparna Dutta Mahanta dies at 75

January 28, 2022

IAWS Tribute to Prof. Aparna Dutta-Mahanta (20-8-1946 to 26-1-2022)

January 28, 2022

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