Woman And Womanhood: An Analysis through the lens of Tradition and Technology

Abstract

This paper looks at how the understanding of womanhood in India is changing with the two forcing perspectives of tradition and technology. It follows older patterns of historical development of the intellectual agency of Vedic women to the social marginalization of the medieval era and the following thrust of the reform movements that redefined modern gender demands. By using the feminist theory and combining it with modern techno-feminist, the study illuminates the concept by which cultural norms and technological improvements are combined and affect the identities, rights, and opportunities of women. Technology turns out to be a driver of safety, mobility, and collective action and a location of the new vulnerabilities including online harassment and algorithmic bias. The paper holds that the modern womanhood can be best described as a negotiation process between the cultural values of the past, which are inherited, and the new possibilities of digital reality. The synthesis we have here offers an understanding of how women are recontextualizing the tradition as they are interacting in contemporary technological markets, and that this study adds to more inclusive and culturally based interpretations of gender.