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Healing relationships by claiming our rights: the story of Achsah.(women in India)

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| July 01, 2003 | Sangeetha, D. Rebecca | COPYRIGHT 2003 Lutheran World Federation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Introduction

Today we live in a socio-politico-cultural- landscape where questions of 'power', 'space' and 'authority' and 'identity' acquire great pertinence. Taking a look at most of the problems that we face today, brings to mind a phrase, which I feel will best reflect the situation as 'identity crisis'. One's identity can be asserted at the cost of the other that constitutes the current problems which take different names and forms like the so called 'war against terrorism', 'casteism', 'patriarchy' and 'communal riots'. If these issues of 'space', 'identity', 'power' which can be encompassed within the theoretical trajectory of 'identity politics' it ...

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