Dear kavita, please lok at this.
----- Forwarded Message ---- From: CK VISHWANATH <[email protected]> To: C.K. Vishwanath <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, 21 March, 2010 11:24:31 AM Subject: Re: Vagina Monologues On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Rinita Mazumdar <[email protected]> wrote: Again, >Couple more things from the Vagina Monologue: >1) While rape and sexual harassment must come to the forefront in India, we >must also note that women's pleasure (feminine please as such) has been >constantly denied by patriarchy. So while we negate one we must not also >negate the other and celebrate femininity (which is in no way contrary to >Feminism in any given definition, Marxist, socialist, liberal, post >structuralist, etc) > >2) One of the things NOT brought up in the Vagina Monologue is this: that only >by the protection of the uteras eugencis and race and caste/class hierarchy is >perpetuated... there are women who donate thier eggs, which cannot be called >any kind of sexual revolution... for that a deeper understading of the sexual >dimension of race, caste, class and eugenics needs to be comprehended which is >absent from VAGINA MONOLOGUE but which we can of course add to it.... > >3) "Veiling" need not be equal to "oppression"; during 1979 Iranian women of >lower middle class (men of this class supported the "revolution" of Khomeini) >took the veil to show their opposition to US hegemonic world domination... US >hegemony and demonzing Iran is as alive today... few Iranian feminists would >be in solidarity with their Western counterpart.... why such division is also >not brought in Vagina monologue... we need to redo some of these in the Indian >context for it to be more contextual... > >Rinita > > >On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Rinita Mazumdar <[email protected]> >wrote: > >Hey Guys and Gals, >>Absolutely excited!!! At least saw a play worth watching, brought in the >>notion of GLOBAL FEMINISM the play is calledVAGINA MONOLOGUE, and is by the >>author Eve Ansler. >> >>We must absolutely perform the play in India. There are several things worth >>about the play: (some of the women in this play performed in my plays >>"Sutteee debate in the British Parlour and the Kitchen" where I went through >>a quasi-Taslima type adventure with the Hindu Temple at the forefront!!!!!) >> >>The play "VAGINA MONOLOGUE" is worth watching for several reasons: >>1) While it talks about the universal phenomena such as rape it also talks >>about women's pleasure (a taboo subject in phallo centric order) >>But I think the best thing about the play is this: >>it really moves away from the notion of a hegemonic US dominated "feminism" >>to women's oppression globally. So while one performed and spoke of the >>Female Genital Mutilation, the other performer on the stage talked about how >>women's bodies are mutilated and commodified in Western Capitalist society >>via use of silicon boobs and artificial beauty product and so on many of >>which are actually very harmful for the body; a parallel in India is the >>craze to whiten skins (spans both genders but more so on women). >> >>So, this shows, that women's bodies whether veiled or open are all products >>of patriarchy and that is the best msg of the play besides being very sex >>positive about women taking control of their bodies and refusing to obey >>patriarchical taboos and laws of pleasure and performance..... >> >>Let us think and try to make an "Indian" version of "VAGINA MONOLOGUE", >> >>Rinita >> > Your Mail works best with the New Yahoo Optimized IE8. Get it NOW! http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
