Book
Why Were Women Enslaved?
Periyar's case, first made in Tamil in 1942, that the subjection of women is built and held in place — by chastity, by marriage, by the denial of property and birth control, and by the religion that sanctifies all three — and can therefore be dismantled. Meena Kandasamy's English translation.
- Publisher
- The Periyar Self-Respect Propaganda Institution
- Edition
- 2007
- First published
- 1942
- ISBN
- 9788190357937Look this edition up on Open Library.
One session
Why were Women enslaved?
The reading circle turned to Periyar's Why Were Women Enslaved?, his 1942 case that the subjection of women is built and held in place by chastity, marriage, and religion, and can therefore be dismantled.
Topics
- Periyar
- Religion and culture
- Caste discrimination