Tithi Bhattacharya

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Tithi Bhattacharya

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).

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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]

Notes

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

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