Biography:Tithi Bhattacharya
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Tithi Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of South Asian history at Purdue University.[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). She 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 Feminist Anti-War Resistance initiated by Russian feminists after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tithi Bhattacharya" (in en). Purdue University. https://cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/tithi-bhattacharya.html.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto". 17 March 2022. https://spectrejournal.com/feminist-resistance-against-war/.
External links
- Tithi Bhattacharya publications indexed by Google Scholar
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