Manasvi Singh week 6

Tanusree Paul (2011) Space, Gender, and Fear of Crime: Some Explorations from Kolkata, Gender, Technology and Development.

A broad interpretation of Foucault’s understanding is how we see a gender today is totally defined by its roles in the society and magnifies the relevance of time and space of for that matter, this includes social behavior, occupation, family etcetera. This is why we see such differences in different times, many traditions, ideologies, day-to-day chores are not the same ones that were a decade ago, and if we magnify on the gendered identity of the different times that also might not be the same. Perhaps which is point what Foucault wants to make that, each gender goes through its own changes with time and space, which might not be similar in nature. The gendered politics has created with time and space patriarchy that further has introduced its own binary called “public” and “private” spheres, which a convenient way of the umbrella effect of social control on behavior. The reading's definition of what is a public sphere is very relevant and true if we think about it. The public space is less than about books and knowledge which is common but it's about what the greater number thinks and interprets and believes in. This is most evidently found by the author relevant to the nationalist ideology of profoundly creating new patriarchy of creating s Christian lady out of the Indian women which was more domesticized and liberated in the other sense.

Why loiter? Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan, Shilpa Ranade

While loitering is seen as something intentional and criminal in nature, the author explains the purpose of it, the purpose of forming a different social identification maybe like how the women’s movement in 2007 was not only a fight against crime but also for equal rights. The author's initial of the project at PULKAR was a great and focused creation on creating a safer public space of women in Mumbai. The understanding and the stance are justifiable in public spaces where women are seen as less professional and hence more unsafe. Again, this goes back to the understanding of the “public” and “private” spheres that are profound in the gender gap, and which serves the purpose of the patriarchy and making the job difficult to remove the gap between genders. The article is more about what a middle-class woman thinks about their loitering, as something negative, unrequired and more than what they are made for. The author further adds three articles, Ordering the Global City: The respectable woman and the Tapori, The tyranny of purpose: The widow-shopper and the street walker, Loitering: Pleasure without purpose? Her reason to refer to these articles was to suggest her four reasons and her stances on loitering that might succeed compared to others that would fail. She concludes by saying that a city belongs to everyone and with unconditional claim to the public spheres and that all women and men can have equal rights on public spheres and that loitering has a meaning and is a right.