Genderand the Politics of Modernity: the New Indian Woman In Four Contemporarywomen's Magazines Politically and Methodologically, This Assertiveparticipation of Women In Right Wing Campaigns, Pulled Many of Our Assumptionsinto a State of Crisis For We Have Always Seen Women As Victims of Violencerather Than Its Perpetrators and We Have Always Perceived Their Public,Political Activity and Interest As a Positive, Liberating Force.1