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http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/uttar-pradesh-festival-honors-unsung-feminists-from-regions-past/?emc=edit_tnt_20140217&tntemail0=y _________________________ \quote "If you place these women in the milieu to which they belonged, just not wearing a burqa and stepping out of your house, and then bringing your daughter to school -- that was considered a very big achievement," said Nimra Rizvi, 23, a master's degree student in medieval Indian history at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, who returned to her hometown to volunteer for the festival. Yet conversations throughout the festival revealed that some of the struggles the feminists of Awadh faced -- for example, leaving the home -- are also modern-day frustrations experienced by women in India. Outside of cities and especially in lower socioeconomic areas, introducing the concept of even physical mobility for women is still an upward struggle, said James Potter, 27, an American public health worker who has been conducting interviews within women's self-help groups throughout Uttar Pradesh. He cited one instance at a village in Hardoi district, a few hours by car northwest of Lucknow, in which villagers shut down a self-help group because rumors started that a woman was using these meetings as an excuse to go out and do something else. "Our program is just one example of a lot of these programs that try to introduce these concepts gradually -- like that women can just leave the house to do something other than farming," said Mr. Potter. However, he said, "it's not like the women can self-enforce their freedom." \unquote _____________________________ Best A. Mani A. Mani [Last_Name. First_Name Format] CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS HomePage: http://www.logicamani.in Blog: http://logicamani.blogspot.in/ _______________________________________________ WFS-India mailing list WFS-India@lists.openhatch.org Message archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/wfs-india@lists.openhatch.org/ Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from your account settings. -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org