This book takes a close look at the gender inequality that forms the bedrock of India’s middle class
The book “Lies Our Mothers Told Us: The Indian Woman’s Burden” by Nilanjana Bhowmick details that the demands of capitalism and the persistence of patriarchal attitudes in the twenty-first century have meant that Indian women continue to lead lives that are hard and unequal, especially whe
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The Indian Women Vloggers Making Visible the Invisible Drudgery of Housework
Through the emerging trend of Indian housewives uploading vlogs of their daily routines to YouTube emerges an increasing awareness of the unfair gendered expectations of Indian middle-class womanhood.
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A new book examines why India’s urban upper middle-class women continue to live hard, unequal lives
An excerpt from ‘Lies Our Mothers Told Us: The Indian Woman’s Burden’, by Nilanjana Bhowmick.
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Book Excerpt: Why Are Women Missing From Public Spaces?
When the public space is hostile, women have no choice but to accept the misogynistic definition of a woman’s rightful place in society.
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Breaking the silence
Lies Our Mothers Told Us offers a real context to think about feminisms in India in the present day, beyond the claims of women’s progress and visibility in public domains
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The women’s burden: Real stories bring alive the struggles that working women face | The Financial Express
The book is not another feminist novel, but a hard-hitting fact-based exposure of how the Indian woman’s burden is carried from one generation to another.
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Book Review: An Invitation to Strengthen the Debate on Middle Class Working Women
In Nilanjana Bhowmick’s, ‘Lies Our Mothers Told Us: The Indian Woman’s Burden’ the protagonists are middle-class women who have been lying to their daughters about ‘having it all’ with being a ‘mother, teacher, wife, chef, housekeeper and a nanny’.
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Explained Books: Every woman in the story, her cross to carry
The story of Nilanjana Bhowmick’s mother aptly captures the burden that the author has undertaken to explore and describe in this book.
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Women working the invisible double shift
A diagnosis of our unequal society and an explanation for all that is messed up for women in India.
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Housework and the Indian middleclass woman
Award-winning journalist Nilanjana Bhowmick’s book, ‘Lies Our Mothers Told Us’, will make you sit up and think about ‘normalised abuse’ of the Indian woman through over-work under the garb of domestic responsibility. A review.
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July bookshelf: Seven recent books that challenge set perceptions of reality and history
The lives and times of actor Sanjeev Kumar, trade union leader George Fernandes, British women in colonial India, and more.
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