Letterature di lingua inglese 2018-19
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Gandhi on women
Manu writes:
WIDOWS: For United Nations: India: Forgotten Women: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SxPv5aQP0c&feature=related‘A widow should be long suffering until death, self-restrained and chaste. A virtuous wife who remains chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven. A woman who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal.’
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VEDOVE: http://widowsofvrindavan.blogspot.com/
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Instructions to the District Magistrates”(1813):
- Declared sati to be a practice founded in the religious beliefs of Hindus;
- Established what the parameters of a “legal” sati were according to the scriptures, that is: every woman of the four castes is permitted to burn herself with the body of her husband, provided she has no infant children, nor is pregnant, nor in a state of uncleanness, nor under the age of puberty; or in any of which cases she is not allowed to burn herself with her husband’s body;
- Concluded saying that, given the scriptural status of sati and the government’s commitment to the principle of religious tolerance, sati would be permitted: ‘in those cases in which it is countenanced by their religion; and [prevented] in others in which it is by the same authority prohibited’. Sati was thus to be prohibited in all cases in which the widow was less than 16, or had infants lass than three years, or was pregnant or intoxicated or in any other way coerced. It was clarified in fact that the practice was intended to be voluntary and, if performed, was expected to ensure an after-life together for the widow and her husband.
- Advance notice was also required for any case of sati so that the police could go end ascertain that the parameters were being respected. The Nizamat Adalat, particularly, instructed magistrates to pay close attention to the demeanour of the widow as she approached the pyre so that officials could intercept at the merest suggestion of coercion.
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The Taboo of Menstruation
By ROSE GEORGE
New York Times, December 28, 2012.
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“if a wife becomes separated from her husband, and falls into distress, she can support herself easily, even in a foreign country, by means of her knowledge of these arts. Even the bare knowledge of them gives attractiveness to a woman, though the practice of them may be only possible or otherwise according to the circumstances of each case.” [Vatsyayana, Kamasutra]
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gANIKA
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Census 2011: illiterates has come down from 304,146,862 in 2001 to 272,950,015 in 2011, showing a decline of 31,196,847 persons.
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India Census 2011, “Status of Literacy”
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Disparities in Performance: The Best and The Worst Performing States in India
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Deepti Gupta offers food for thought:
“Maternal mortality is not merely a health disadvantage, but also a reflection of social and gender injustice. The low social and economic status of girls and women limits their access to education, appropriate nutrition, as well as health and family planning services. All these directly impact on pregnancy outcomes. The overriding causes of the high Maternal Mortality Ratio across India are the absence of a skilled birth attendant at delivery, poor access to emergency obstetric care in case of a complication and no reliable referral system (with easy mobility), to ensure that women who experience complications can reach life-saving emergency obstetric care in time. Any skilled birth attendant, however proficient she may be, also needs the back up of a functioning health system and cannot succeed without drugs, equipment and infrastructure.”
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The Gulabi Gang - India . Youtube
PINK GANG docu-film by enrico bisi -trailer-
Milioni di euro e bastonate, 21 febbraio 2012, di Doriana Goracci
Kumari - Living Goddess - Nepal
Living Incarnation of a Hindu Goddess.
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