Women Studies Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Women studies,
What is it about?
It is of women, by women and of women,
Women speaking for women
Re-telling the stories of life
As seen through,
Borne with and undergone,
Women speaking for women,
Women recounting their stories.

Women as seminarians,
Receptionists,
Sales executives,
Resource persons,
Women as housewives,
Women as domestic helps,
Women as human beings.

Women for women, by women, of women.
Women in the need of women,
Women speaking for women,
Women helping women,
Women protesting,
Women for women.

Women studies,
Women studying it not,
But for men too
To learn from
Their experiences
Undergone
Over the ages
Passed from age to age.

Women studies developmental studies,
Welfare studies,
Human rights studies,
Gender bias studies,
Labour studies,
Women studies about their narratives,
Freedom and liberation
To mental torture to exploitation.

Women under trauma and stress,
Women in pain and trouble,
Women suffering and struggling
To make a living,
Women labouring, working under
Impoverished circumstances,
Woman exploited.