“Equality and not about Equal Rights”: Redefining Fourth-Wave Inclusion and Intersectionality through the Digital Platform Agent of Ishq
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2021
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University of North Bengal
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The definition of the historically abounding F-Word, Feminism, is continuously
being shifted from one notion to another, varying in accord with class, caste, and
gender across generations. Starting with the website Everyday Sexism launched
by Laura Bates in 2012, Fourth wave feminism has recently witnessed a
paradigmatic shift from the previous waves of feminism. Currently, as we
consider the fluidity of gender construction and interact with various forms of it
every day, social media or representation of women on-screen has been one of
the most influential factors behind constructing our ‘already gendered’ selves.
As the applications of power disseminate the idea of empowerment, equality and
freedom also differ alongside. Hence, today’s feminism looks up to a lot more
exposure where people can put themselves out there without adhering to any kind
of censorship or asceticism. This approach has been productively exercised
through the online multimedia digital platform Agent of Ishq, directed and
introduced by the filmmaker Paromita Vohra in 2015. This research will initially
be focused on the way how some mainstream Indian movies, featured to be
among the ‘top 10 feminist films’, formed the idea of feminism vis-à-vis how far
the feminist implication through Agent of Ishq addresses and adheres to the
current ‘wave’ of feminism in India.
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2320-3625