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Tithi Bhattacharya

Tithi Bhattacharya teaches history at Purdue University. Her first book, The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (Oxford, 2005), is about the obsession with culture and education in the middle class.

April 2018

  • strikes

    Women are leading the wave of strikes in America. Here's why

    Tithi Bhattacharya
    The spreading teachers strikes are for wages and benefits – but they arise from a social landscape scoured by gender and racial inequalities

January 2018

  • Thousands March At International Women Strike In New York City<br>NEW YORK - MARCH 08: Thousands participate in demonstrations on Women’s Day on March 08, 2017 in New York City. To celebrate International Women’s Day, women and allies join the International Women’s Strike, with rallies and marches organized by diverse groups who represent feminism. Across the country, over fifty strike events are taking place, alongside International Women’s Day events in over thirty countries. PHOTOGRAPH BY Erik McGregor / Pacific Press / Barcroft Images London-T:+44 207 033 1031 E:hello@barcroftmedia.com - New York-T:+1 212 796 2458 E:hello@barcroftusa.com - New Delhi-T:+91 11 4053 2429 E:hello@barcroftindia.com www.barcroftimages.com

    We need a feminism for the 99%. That's why women will strike this year

    Linda Martín Alcoff, Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Rosa Clemente, Angela Davis, Zillah Eisenstein, Liza Featherstone, Nancy Fraser, Barbara Smith, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    On 8 March, we will go on strike against gender violence – against the men who commit violence and against the system that protects them

February 2017

  • Women’s March

    Strikes were a part of Women's Day before. With Trump, they will be again

    Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya
  • women's march

    Women of America: we're going on strike. Join us so Trump will see our power

    Linda Martín Alcoff, Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, Barbara Ransby, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rasmea Yousef Odeh, Angela Davis
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