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Gendered Spaces in the Taipucam Festival, Singapore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2003

CHITRA SANKARAN
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Abstract

The Hindu festival of Taipucam celebrated in honour of the male god Murugan is one of the public festivals that Hindus in Singapore celebrate with a great deal of aplomb and ceremony. It takes on the hue of a carnival and is a major tourist attraction. At the centre of the festival is the male kavadi bearer. Beside him walks the docile woman carrying her pot of milk. In the Taipucam festival procession, there is clearly apparent an empowered male versus a subsidiary female space, which appears determinate and confined, marking a tentative emergence of a subversive ‘feminist’ space that attempts to grasp at a measure of empowerment for women.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , October 2003 , pp. 245 - 258
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© International Federation for Theatre Research 2003

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