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The Relation Between Empowerment And Aggression

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Aggression inside women has been their survival strategy and they used their aggression as an instrument to achieve their goal and to gain control over their lives and situation. These women used their aggression to attain freedom, equality and justice, leading them towards empowerment. Empowerment and aggression are two sides of the same coin. Loss of control, helplessness causes aggression and attaining control, power to take decision is empowerment. Empowerment means gaining control over live. These women did the same they challenged and changed their sub ordinate status and lives. Empowerment is a process and implies redistribution of power. Empowerment does not stop here, but becomes emancipator, when it empowers others as well. Women under study used their aggression as an instrument to attain empowerment, in personal, social and economic sphere and they did not stop at themselves, instead they reached to others and empowered other, They mustered courage to change their situation realized their strengths and decided to improve their status and position. They did not succumb to the discrimination; they derived …show more content…

Journey of women from aggression to empowerment had been long and ranging from one continuum to another. Their education helped them to transform their aggression to empowerment, a closer look at their lives reveal that their situation has been similar to many women, who succumbed to oppression but what made these women stand apart was their education. Formal education or education acquired through informal and non formal means, like from religious books or from people around them, from mass media, spanning over a period of time. Whether it was kalpana, who derived strength from religious books or Promila who learned new skills, or Maya, whose dance was her strength, education and learning played important role in their lives, influencing them at deeper level and transforming their beliefs, thoughts and

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