{"id":49,"count":2,"description":"A common argument used whenever women in India speak about being oppressed is: how can a society that treats women as goddesses also oppress them? Within the women\u2019s movement, activists have taken this on board and have used the image of the many-armed empowered goddess to speak of a completely different reality. They\u2019ve turned the image on its head and shown how the many arms actually represent the never-ending tasks that a woman has to do, and the drudgery of her daily life as this stunning image demonstrates. ","link":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/?cat=49","name":"the goddess","slug":"pow_goddess","taxonomy":"category","parent":21,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories\/21"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.posterwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&categories=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}