Title
Past, Present, and Future: Analyzing the Relationship Between Indian Women and Cultural Traditions
Course
POLS-340 Politics in the Developing World
Document Type
Student Paper
Publication Date
2017
Disciplines
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Political Science
Augustana Digital Commons Citation
Kwasigroch, Jacqueline. "Past, Present, and Future: Analyzing the Relationship Between Indian Women and Cultural Traditions" (2017). Political Science: Student Scholarship & Creative Works.
https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/polsstudent/4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Comments
I first became interested in the topic of sex-selective abolitions in India during Dr. Umme Al-Wazedi and Dr. Jennifer Popple's WGS 380 course, titled Women/Health/Activism in India. This WGS class was part of a learning community; our class first spent ten weeks learning about women's empowerment in India, then traveled to India for two weeks to learn from Indian women engaging in activism. Post-trip, our WGS class has continued to meet once a week in order to facilitate learning from our experiences. Originally I was going to choose a different topic for my POLS paper, but upon returning from India, I couldn't stop wrestling with my thoughts. This paper, "Past, Present, and Future: Analyzing the Relationship Between Indian Women and Cultural Traditions," is my attempt at coming to terms with all that I have learned and experienced, as well as acknowledging that I still have so much to learn. I am thankful to have had to opportunity to expand on my initial interest, research, and writings for WGS through a POLS lens, as ultimately, the two are quite interconnected.