Thursday, July 27, 2017

13th Women's World Congress in Brazil


As I leave for the 13th Women's World Congress in Brazil on 27th July, 2017, I rewind back three  year  fro

m now to our Women's World Congress in 2014 in India, where this book was released and I still consider

this  as one of my favourite books for 18 Feminists across the world have shared their stories. Though

there is so much difference in terms of place, location and time frame for each author, there is a common

thread of struggle in all these stories  where the personal becomes the political be it Cynthia Enloe,

Uma Charkravarthy, Anita Nyberg,   Simona SharoniMaitrayee Krishna Raj, Tahera Aftab,

Geraldine Forbes and many others.As I leave for the 13th Women's World Congress in Brazil I rewind

back three  year  from now to our Women's World Congress in 2014 in India, where this book was

released and I still consider this  as one of my favourite books for 18 Feminists across the world have

shared their stories. Though there is so much difference in terms of place, location and time frame for

each author, there is a common thread of struggle in all these stories  where the personal becomes

the political be it Cynthia Enloe, Uma Charkravarthy, Anita Nyberg,   Simona Sharoni

Maitrayee Krishna Raj, Tahera Aftab, Geraldine Forbes and many others.