Blog Post 6

I interviewed my paternal grandmother who in the 1970’s was living in Bangladesh. During this time period, there was a war going on between Bangladesh, which was then called East Pakistan, and Pakistan, which was then called West Pakistan, to be it’s own country. There were many women who were actually freedom fighters at this time, though she wasn’t one of them, she watched firsthand some of her friends become one. It was a gruesome war with many casualties and horrific sights to see. In such a time like this, it was really unusual for women to be anything but housewives, but to put themselves on the front lines of this war was a giant step for the feminist movement. It was a tragedy that it took a time period like this for people to see the full resilience and strength of a woman, but it slowly started to progress from then on.