Suggested Citation: Acharya, D. (2021, October 14). Impact of Patriarchy on the Mental Health of Women in India. Queer Academia. URL India is a land interwoven with its culture and tradition. The mindsets, schemas, personalities, and core beliefs of the population are influenced by the native customs almost to the point that identity and ethnicity become inseparable and interchangeable entities. (Ramani, 2015). Patriarchy, i.e., a system of society where men hold the majority of the power, is prominent in India. The consequence of this arrangement is the subjugation of women and inhibition from responsibilities and positions that they are more than capable of handling. A pressing norm like patriarchy seeps into various aspects of a woman’s life such as identity formation, self-esteem, autonomy, familial roles, moral obligations, self-improvement, career, independence, etc. Since patriarchy has a strong influence on a woman’s life, especially in the Indian collective community, the issu
Queer Fanfiction: An Instrument in the Construction of Queer Identities| Suhasini Sathyanarayan Suggested Citation: Sathyanarayan, S. (2021, July 15). Queer Fanfiction: An Instrument in the Construction of Queer Identities. Queer Academia. URL. Introduction Almost everyone self-identifies as a fan in some sense, writes Mark Duffett in his 2013 book, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture (p. 23). He traces the word “fan” back to the term “fanatic,” that is formally defined as a “person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause” (Oxford Languages). But the term, in its present colloquial understanding, has been scraped off of most of the negative connotations of “fanatic” over the years, though the degree to which is largely dependent on the perception of the particular community by the larger population, and thus differs from community to community. The word was first seen in use in t