Anyone Explain the Short summary of Loitre ( novel )
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Lolita, of the Confession of a White Widowed Male by Vladimir Nabokov is a story about Humbert Humbert, a literature professor in his late thirties, obsessed with a twelve-year-old Dolores Haze. The novel consists of a preface, two parts and the author's annotation. The book starts with the foreword written by fictitious editor named John Ray, Jr., Ph.D., who explains the story that will follow. He states that he received Lolita's manuscript from Humbert Humbert's lawyer and that Humbert died in jail waiting for a trial. Invented by Nabokov editor believes that Lolita should serve as a warning and a moral lesson for generations to come.
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Authors: Shilpa Phadke, Shilpa Ranade, Sameera Khan
Publisher: Penguin Books
Genre: Non Fiction
“Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets” is a book that is truly powerful in its potential to generate debate, and perhaps to create a transformative change in the way we perceive public spaces in India.
Lucid and compact, the book was born out of a three year research project titled Gender and Space, undertaken by the authors Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade. Based in Mumbai, it cuts across location, class and religious affiliations. Carefully dispelling the myth of Mumbai being a safe city that grants full access to its women, it proves that even in this cosmopolitan city, the access of women to public spaces is “at best, conditional”.
Reading through this text feels like a series of epiphanies – revealing things that seem so obvious, but not until they’ve been pointed out to you. As it eloquently points out, that “when society wants to keep a woman safe, it never chooses to make public spaces safe for her”, and instead tries to limit her right to this space. It highlights the way in which the media, as well as general discourse tends to focus on the dangers that face women who “dare to cross prescribed lines”. The sensationalism exhibited by the media in reporting violence against women only serves to reinforce women’s fears about being out in public, and justifies further restrictions on her mobility, all the while normalizing her already limited access to public space. And of course, whenever there is an attack on any woman in public, the focus immediately centres on why and what she was doing there, what she was wearing, who she was with-thus putting the onus of the attack completely on her.