Biography:Tithi Bhattacharya

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Tithi Bhattacharya

Tithi Bhattacharya is an American activist and writer. She is Professor of South Asian history at Purdue University in the United States.[1] She is a prominent Marxist feminist and one of the national organizers of the International Women's Strike on March 8, 2017.[2] Bhattacharya is a vocal advocate of Palestinian rights and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).

Bhattacharya is one of the authors of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, which ties feminism to other modes of struggle, including anti-racism and anti-capitalism. On the topic of gender Bhattacharya has written the book The Sentinels of Culture, which developed from her dissertation on the British-educated middle class in 19th-century Kolkata.[3][1] She has also written on the politics of Islamophobia and women in Islam.

In March 2022, Bhattacharya was one of 151 international feminists to sign Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Russian Feminist Anti-War Resistance.[4][n. 1]

Biography

Bhattacharya was born in India.[8] She applied for U.S. citizenship in 2015 after living there for nearly a decade. She cited the stress of applying for visas and the election of Narendra Modi as prime minister as reasons for applying for citizenship.

Notes

  1. ↑ This manifesto was criticized by both Ukrainian feminists and members of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance themselves.[5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tithi Bhattacharya" (in en). Purdue University. https://cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/tithi-bhattacharya.html. 
  2. ↑ "Women of America: we're going on strike. Join us so Trump will see our power". The Guardian. 6 February 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/06/women-strike-trump-resistance-power. Retrieved 28 July 2017. 
  3. ↑ Kumar, Nita (1 April 2007). "Tithi Bhattacharya. The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (1848–85). New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 272. $35.00Reviews of BooksAsia" (in en). The American Historical Review 112 (2): 483–484. doi:10.1086/ahr.112.2.483. ISSN 0002-8762. https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/112/2/483/41333. Retrieved 28 February 2021. 
  4. ↑ "Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto". 17 March 2022. https://spectrejournal.com/feminist-resistance-against-war/. 
  5. ↑ Hendl, Tereza (2022). "Towards accounting for Russian imperialism and building meaningful transnational feminist solidarity with Ukraine". Gender Studies 26: 62-93. http://kcgs.net.ua/gurnal/26/gs26-2022_full.pdf#page=62. 
  6. ↑ Ashley Smith (June 23, 2022). "Inside the Russian Resistance Against Putin’s War". https://spectrejournal.com/inside-the-russian-resistance-against-putins-war/. 
  7. ↑ "Russia's women are fighting back against the war in Ukraine". 4 October 2022. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-feminist-resistance-to-ukraine-war/. 
  8. ↑ Bhattacharya, Tithi. "The day I said goodbye to a country I could no longer call home". https://www.salon.com/2015/09/26/the_day_i_said_goodbye_to_a_country_i_could_no_longer_call_home/. 



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