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This essay is a rumination on food, family and feminism. It investigates the enduring popularity of Karva Chauth among North Indian, dominant caste, married, working women in the San Francisco Bay Area. It highlights the significance of the fasting–feasting ritual in a range of self-shaping projects. By excavating the meanings embedded in food in women’s worlds, it privileges gendered experiential knowledge and forwards and repositions a nuanced understanding of agency, power and self-expression in the formation of diasporic identities.
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162462
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This article focuses on childhood-based sibling violence against adolescent girls in urban India and highlights the ways in which culture shapes, morphs, disguises and elides particular forms of kin-based aggression and presents it as protection, love and routine. It extends the study of familial violence by highlighting women's narratives about violence perpetrated by adolescent brothers or brother-like figures. Contrary to an imagined childhood as a time of benevolent nurturing and care, it reveals that it is in the natal home that the young learn the script of violence and that such forms of aggression help to eventually crystallise their subjectivities. By shifting the issue of violence against women away from the discourse of rights and reframing it within discourses of power, it disturbs traditional definitions of family, victim, survivor, perpetrator and ally, and reveals how women navigate within the shifting contradictions of kinship regimes.
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