Gadis Arivia

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Full Name	Gadis Arivia
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Sep 8, 1964(1964-09-08)
Age	60
Birthplace	New Delhi
Country	India
Birth City	Delhi
Horoscope	Virgo

Gadis Arivia Biography

Gadis Arivia is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on September 8, 1964 in New Delhi, Delhi, India. Arivia was born in New Delhi, India, in 1964. As the child of an Indonesian diplomat She spent the majority of her youth abroad. apart from her time in India she also lived in Ethiopia as well as Hungary in which she studied in the British Embassy School in Budapest. After a few years of studying in Indonesia and Hungary, she completed her senior high school classes in McLean High School situated in McLean, Virginia, while her brother was stationed in Washington D.C..

In the Asian Financial Crisis, Arivia was a well-known scholar and one of Jakarta’s top feminists – protested against the administration using the rising prices of milk as disguise. On February 23, 1998, she joined twenty women at the Hotel Indonesia roundabout to protest the high cost of milk during a demonstration led by Jurnal Perempuan. She also founded Suara Ibu Peduli (“Voice of Caring Mothers”) which was a group that was led by Arivia. The protesters sang, prayed and distributed flowers. They also read a statement calling for more women’s involvement in the resolution of the crisis. Arivia was detained along with two other women: the Astronomer Karlina Leksono Supelli, and militant Wilasih Noviana. After receiving a lot of support from the public they were all released.

In 2009, Arivia published a poetry collection titled Yang Sakral dan yang Sekuler (The Sacred and the Profane). This collection, published a year after the controversial Pornography and Pornoaction law was passed, has been read as a condemnation of the Indonesian state’s continued power over women’s bodies and sexuality. Arivia in 2006 received the Tasrif Award by Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI)

Arivia teaches contemporary philosophy and feminist theory at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Indonesia until 2017. In 2018 she joined Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Silver Spring, Maryland as an adjunct professor in sociology and sociology of gender. She is married to Richard Pollard, with whom she has two children, Anisa Joyce Pollard and Benjamin Arif Pollard. She currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

After returning back to Indonesia, Arivia resumed teaching. Recognizing the difficulties of finding feminist material in Indonesia and with the hope of promoting the democratization of Indonesia and defend minorities’ rights, she started work, aided by Ida Dhanny, Asikin Arif along with Toeti Heraty, in establishing the nation’s first feminist journal. Arivia founded The Jurnal Perempuan Foundation [id] in 1995. The first Jurnal Perempuan [id] (Women’s Journal) was released in the year following. Krishna Sen of the University of Western Australia describes the journal as “Indonesia’s first journal of feminist theory”. The journal was able to only afford a small amount of money to publish it and later for social work. During the eight years Arivia was director of the journal the journal did not pay her any salary. She continues to serve on the editorial board.

Gadis Arivia Net Worth

Gadis Arivia is one of the richest Philosopher from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gadis Arivia 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gadis Arivia (born 8 September 1964) is an Indonesian feminist philosopher and lecturer, scholar and activist. While she was teaching philosophy and feminism in the University of Indonesia, Arivia established Jurnal Perempuan [id] , the first journal for women in Indonesia, in 1996. She was detained in 1998 by the Suharto government over her protests against the government in 1998.

After finishing her high school education, Arivia studied the French language as part of an accredited program at the University of Indonesia, later finishing a philosophy degree at the same institution. When she completed her baccalaureate study, Arivia became interested in the concept of feminism. She read a variety of books on the subject, which included the works of her professor, Toeti Heraty, as in Barbara Smith’s All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men but a Few of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies. She started teaching in the University of Indonesia in 1991 and was in charge of the first Feminist Paradigms course before she was accepted into EHESS which is the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in 1992. Arivia obtained her DEA in social psychology just two years after.

In 2002, Arivia completed her doctorate studies at the University of Indonesia’s philosophy department. Her dissertation, “Dekonstruksi Filsafat Barat, Menuju Filsafat Berperspektif Feminis” (“Deconstructing Western Philosophy, Moving Towards a Feminist Perspective Philosophy”) was published the following year as Filsafat Berperspektif Feminis (Feminist Perspective Philosophy).

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