Vajood Aurat Ka : Stri Vimarsh Pratinidhi Paath

Gloria Steinem, one of the worlds most respected feminist writers, spent some of her formative years in India. During her time there, she was influenced by the Gandhian idea that change must always grow from the bottom up, like a tree. Subsequently, through her decades of work with feminist movements in the United States and around the world, she learned that violence and domination are normalized under the guise of false divisions of human beings into subject and object, ruler and ruled, man and woman. In Womens Existence, Gloria Steinem and activist Ruchira Gupta have created a select collection of some of Glorias groundbreaking essays. These essays have, since their writing, transcended borders and reached across the world, laying the foundation for a significant portion of modern feminist thought. In these pages, Gloria reveals the truth that racial, caste, and class-based discrimination is rooted in the control of the female bodyGloria also reveals the ways in which men and women struggle for this control. She brilliantly analyzes Adolf Hitlers obsession with masculinity and finds a gendered idea of violence rooted in his personality. She explains the difference between erotica and pornography, explaining that this difference arises from the inequality that governs relationships between the two sexes. In addition to her poignant experience of her time as a Playboy Bunny, the book also includes Glorias previously unpublished essay, Teesri Raah, on human trafficking for prostitution. The Existence of a Woman, a book written from a scholarly perspective, is deeply grounded. This book is written in a way that makes even complex arguments easily understood by the reader, with a touch of simplicity. In this collection, youll find fresh ideas, anger, seriousness, laughter, and a friend.