When I look back at these 18 days, I have noticed a pattern amidst support and resistance. Supporters have been downright kind and are empathetic to the situation I have been through, or silent readers who wrote to me in person with love and encouragement. While resistance came from those who show some/same amount of […]
Tag: labour
Labour: Love and Magic
Women’s labour is truly invisible, magical, and must be paid with “his love”.
Horns and Cows
Even in the so-called romantic cultures that celebrate passionate entanglements in its literature, films, and mythology — acting “out of love” is not always an equal experience. After the past two (almost) academic posts, today (while lying in my bed, sick with flu) I have realised that it’s time to unpack the condensed ideas that I tried putting through in my previous posts. I don’t want to get into the spiral of academic language (again)… So, let me try to just go with the flow and explain what I mean with the help of popular Hindu magniloquence of “love”. And a bit of random bursting out into songs where “I would do anything for love… I’d run right into hell and back…. I would do anything for love…”!!
MY love keeps YOU (safely) preoccupied
MY love keeps YOU (safely) preoccupied is an attempt to explore some of the gendered aspects of distinction and domination in families from the classes with little to no cultural capital (Bourdieuan mainly), and if the idea of ‘love’ and its ritualistic emphasis on performance coax the agenda of domination of the weaker gender through the discourse of ‘love’…? And if this can be understood by looking at Marxist conflict theory… Then what is love? (Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more!)
ANTHROPOLOGY OF LOVE 