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Margo Jefferson: ‘You find ways to subvert White femininity in order to survive’

Tishani Doshi

Margo Jefferson’s memoir about growing up as an elite African-American woman moves between femininity and feminism without getting polemical on either

Siri Hustvedt: Artists Are Cannibals

Novelist, poet and essayist, Siri Hustvedt is an intimidating figure in her books as well as in her exploration of ideas

Taslima Nasrin: ‘Without sexual freedom women will never get equality’

The third of her seven-volume memoir is out in English and Taslima Nasrin still remains a rebel with no regrets

Cultural Grief

This subtle narrative set in Mumbai is powered by a Parsi and an Odiya tribal

The Gateway Litfest: We Too

When women hold forth at a Litfest with a difference

She Power

Drawing the intimate and the taboo with wit and wisdom

Gender and Geography

Being feminine is so natural in this celebration of the Northeast

Everyday Heroines

In praise of women who thrive in adversity

Change is Her

The year saw a shift from the theory of equality for men and women towards a practice of equality

‘Playboy made sexual abuse ordinary’

The American feminist writer Catharine MacKinnon says that sexual harassment has gone from being a privilege of power to a total disgrace

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