Anandhi\u2019s essay addresses the Self Respect Movement in India in terms of its relationship with women and patriarchy, \u201chow the movement perceived the women’s question and in what manner it tried to resolve it.\u201d The essay describes the stances taken by Periyar in challenging patriarchy before examining the practical achievements and legacy of the movement. Anandhi concludes that \u201cwhile the Self Respect Movement challenged patriarchy, it failed to create a new anti-patriarchal consciousness even among its own followers.\u201d<\/p>\n
“The Suyamariathai Iyakkam (Self Respect Movement) which was
\nlaunched by Periyar E.V. Ramasamy Naicker in 1926, in an effort to
\ndemocratise the Tamil Society, has been the theme of historical
\nresearch by several non-Marxist and Marxist scholars.1 In their
\nwritings the movement has been characterised in different ways-
\nrevivalist, pro-British, secessionist, anti-Brahmin etc.<\/p>\n
A striking feature of the existing studies on the Self Respect
\nMovement is their silence on its consistent struggle against women’s
\noppression and its attempt to dismantle the ubiquitous structure of
\npatriarchy in Tamil society. Although Marxist scholars like N. Ram
\nand Arulalan have briefly dealt with this aspect of the movement, a
\ndetailed systematic treatment of the same is yet to be done. This
\nsilence is significant because the question of women’s emancipation was
\none of the central themes in the political agenda of the Self Respect
\nMovement,3 especially during its early phase.<\/p>\n
The present paper is a modest attempt to fill this void in the current
\nscholarship on the Self Respect Movement which is a result of writing
\nhistory from the male point of view. The paper therefore addresses
\nitself to the question of how the movement perceived the women’s
\nquestion and in what manner it tried to resolve it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anandhi\u2019s essay addresses the Self Respect Movement in India in terms of its relationship with women and patriarchy, \u201chow the movement perceived the women’s question and in what manner it tried to resolve it.\u201d The essay describes the stances taken by Periyar in challenging patriarchy before examining the practical achievements and legacy of the movement. Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[34,23,26],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-tawaifs","tag-devadasi","tag-history","tag-secondary-source"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}