Defining Men’s Lib
The Hindu
Kumar Vikram’s Men’s Lib underlines that patriarchy impacts negatively both women and men.
If ever a book’s title forced a reader to pick it up, Kumar Vikram’s Men’s Lib will win hands down. For long we have been used to reading about women’s liberation, but here comes an author who talks of the need to liberate men from the oppressive forces of patriarchy!
A senior editor with the National Book Trust, Vikram is an independent researcher, translator, poet and essayist. He merges many of his skills here in a collection of essays written over a period of 15 years. The essays remove many a blinker. As Vikram says, “These essays try to walk through lanes and bylanes of ideas and personalities, believing them all to be part and parcel of one big village, or maybe an apartment, which are interconnected and have corridors to link them but due to prejudices, one remains oblivious of the same.”
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