Decolonizing the Home at Home in the Pandemic: Articulating Women's Experience

Title

Decolonizing the Home at Home in the Pandemic: Articulating Women's Experience

Creator

Abhaya N.B.

Description

Feminism bears the promise of liberation of and equality for women. Reading and teaching feminist texts, within the academia and in activist spaces, has provided the opportunity to explore what it means to become and be a woman. This article explores the experience of teaching a course on women's writing at the undergraduate level during the COVID-19 pandemic. Normally, a course on feminist writings is an occasion for self-reflection, thereby providing an opportunity to establish a dialogue between the domestic and the public. Such dialogues took place in secure institutional spaces such as classrooms or conference halls, without the intrusion of the domestic. However, as the teacher-student interaction shifted to an online mode during the pandemic, all the participants in this dialogue, including the instructor and the students, found themselves in domestic spaces, with family members listening. The article chronicles the anxieties of a woman instructor, as she teaches feminist texts from home to learners who are sitting behind computer screen in their homes and the possible impact of feminist ideas on the domestic spaces of all participants. 2022 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the English Association. All rights reserved.

Source

English, Vol-70, No. 271, pp. 350-358.

Date

2021-01-01

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Coverage

Abhaya N.B., Christ University, Bangalore, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 138215

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efac001

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