By Pooja Garg This article was originally published in the January 2022 issue of Khabar Magazine When Home is Not a Safe Haven for Children A staggering 25 percent of all children worldwide witness domestic violence even before they have turned five, according to WHO. Almost half of those get directly abused. As we estimate…
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Motherhood: A Socially-constructed Virtue of Patriarchy?
By Zeba Kazi Biological claims are often used to explain motherhood as a fact and an experience. Feminists have shown that the concept of motherhood is socially, historically, legally, and politically constructed. Many of them have refuted the claim that motherhood is innate to women. Associating motherhood as inherent to women coalesces biological and sociological…