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From: CK VISHWANATH <[email protected]>
To: Rinita Mazumdar <[email protected]>
Cc: C.K. Vishwanath <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, 23 March, 2010 10:17:54 AM
Subject: Re: Vagina Monologues
thnaks.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Rinita Mazumdar <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hello All,
>Hope everyone is doing fine. I hope you all saw that "Vagina Monologue" was
>performed in India. I did not read that script so it is difficult to say what
>it is.
>
>Couple of things we need to push if this has to be performed in India:
>>
>1) As in the Latin version while they talked about FGM they also talked about
>70 year olds getting silicon breast implant in the West (a product of consumer
>capitalism), which is why patriarchy does not end with the "opening up of the
>market".
>>
>2) "Masculinity" and "Femininity" are relative terms, they have to be
>understood in context.....
>For example, while masculinity is taken away from working class or lower class
>men or many times in this country from immigrant men (castrated), femininity
>is also culturally constructed around women of middle class and thus this
>particular construction becomes the ideology of the Nation State, these need
>to be brought out.
>
>In the next email I am recounting my experience over the weekend,
>
>Rinita
>
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