Selective Readings of Feminist Scholarship Anand Chakravarti FEMINIFICATION of Theory' (March 25) by Dipankar Gupta (DG) suffers from two major limitations: first, it draws entirely from a restricted aspect of western experience, and that too in a highly tendentious manner; and second, fundamentally, it is based on a one-sided understanding of feminist scholarship, that which revolves round the symbolic representation of the female body and associated bodily processes.