Why Is Feminism a ‘Cancer’?

This week, The Swaddle team explores why people hate on feminism in India, and how ‘feminist’ became a dirty word.

Edit and motion graphics: Bavana Gone
Art Director: Neha Shekhawat
Scripted by: Adreeta Chakraborty
Presented by: Anahita Sachdev
Visual Research: Samiksha Mathur
Produced by: Shrishti Malhotra
Creative Supervisor: Karla Bookman

Want to learn more about the research in this video? Check out these readings:

-Mehrotra, Nilika. "Understanding Feminism in a Local Context." Indian Anthropologist 31, no. 1 (2001): 1-17.

-Flood, Michael, Molly Dragiewicz, and Bob Pease. "Resistance and backlash to gender equality." Australian Journal of Social Issues (2020).

-Khan, Subuhi, and Laramie Taylor. "Gender policing in mainstream Hindi cinema: A decade of central female characters in top-grossing Bollywood movies." International Journal of Communication 12 (2018): 22.

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