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The World Before Her ​
Tags
Cegep1
Humanities
Word count
141 words
Reading time
1 minute
Documentary about the conflict between the Miss India pageant and the Durga Vahini group
- Miss India
- Platform of influence
- Liberal
- Accepts Western influence
- Women are free to have a career
- Threatened by Hindu extremists
- Durga Vahini
Lit.Durga army- Trains strong girls
- Nationalist, conservative, sexist
- Hindu extremism
- Against ahimsa
- Will kill for Hindutva
- Religious stratification "I used to have Muslim friends in fourth grade"
- "Violence" protest
- Patriarchy
- Abortion of girls
- Women should stay indoors (private space)
- Marriage is duty (control)
- Physical abuse of women (control)
- Honour
- Being on the front page of the newspaper is honour for the family (worldview)
- Beauty contest is vulgar (different worldview)
Ajitani Hifumi