A Study of Women of Bengal
| Author | : Sankar Sen Gupta |
| Publisher | : Calcutta : Indian Publications |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : Women |
| ISBN | : |
Download A Study of Women of Bengal Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Study Of Woman Of Bengal PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download A Study Of Woman Of Bengal PDF full book. Access full book title A Study Of Woman Of Bengal.
A Study of Woman of Bengal
| Author | : Sankar Sen Gupta |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Download A Study of Woman of Bengal Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Refugee Woman
| Author | : Paulomi Chakraborty |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2018-07-27 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0199095396 |
Download The Refugee Woman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Refugee Woman examines the Partition of 1947 by engaging with the cultural imagination of the ‘refugee woman’ in West Bengal, particularly in three significant texts of the Partition of Bengal—Ritwik Ghatak’s film Meghe Dhaka Tara; and two novels, Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Epar Ganga, Opar Ganga and Sabitri Roy’s Swaralipi. It shows that the figure of the refugee woman, animated by the history of the political left and refugee movements, and shaped by powerful cultural narratives, can contest and reconstitute the very political imagination of ‘woman’ that emerged through the long history of dominant cultural nationalisms. The reading it offers elucidates some of the complexities of nationalist, communal, and communist gender-politics of a key period in post-independence Bengal.
Desire and Defiance
| Author | : Aparna Bandyopadhyay |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Heterosexual women |
| ISBN | : 9788125062356 |
Download Desire and Defiance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Words of Her Own
| Author | : Maroona Murmu |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2019-11-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199098212 |
Download Words of Her Own Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Words of Her Own situates the experiences and articulations of emergent women writers in nineteenth-century Bengal through an exploration of works authored by them. Based on a spectrum of genres—such as autobiographies, novels, and travelogues—this book examines the sociocultural incentives that enabled the dawn of middle-class Hindu and Brahmo women authors at that time. Murmu explores the intersections of class, caste, gender, language, and religion in these works. Reading these texts within a specific milieu, Murmu sets out to rectify the essentialist conception of women’s writings being a monolithic body of works that displays a firmly gendered form and content, by offering rich insights into the complex world of subjectivities of women in colonial Bengal. In attempting to do so, this book opens up the possibility of reconfiguring mainstream history by questioning the scholarly conceptualization of patriarchy being omnipotent enough to shape the intricacies of gender relations, resulting in the flattening of self-fashioning by women writers. The book contends that there were women authors who flouted the norms of literary aesthetics and tastes set by male literati, thereby creating a literary tradition of their own in Bangla and becoming agents of history at the turn of the century.
Bengali Women
| Author | : Manisha Roy |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2010-02-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0226230449 |
Download Bengali Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on personal experiences and interviews with others, Roy explores the frustrations and rewards in the lives of Hindu Bengali women in upper and upper-middle class families in India. Roy traces the psychological dimensions of these women as they play their specific roles, including daughter, wife, mother, and sister-in-law. In a new Afterword, Roy discusses changes in Bengali society and culture over the last two decades which have direct bearings on women's lives: divorce and the breakup of the joint family, education, increasing Westernization via television and women's magazines, and the erosion of traditional religious practices.
Travel Culture, Travel Writing and Bengali Women, 1870–1940
| Author | : Jayati Gupta |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2020-07-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000088227 |
Download Travel Culture, Travel Writing and Bengali Women, 1870–1940 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book chronicles travel writings of Bengali women in colonial India and explores the intersections of power, indigeneity, and the representations of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ in these writings. It documents the transgressive histories of these women who stepped out to create emancipatory identities for themselves. The book brings together a selection of travelogues from various Bengali women and their journeys to the West, the Aryavarta, and Japan. These writings challenge stereotypes of the 'circumscribed native woman’ and explore the complex personal and socio-political histories of women in colonial India. Reading these from a feminist, postcolonial perspective, the volume highlights how these women from different castes, class and ages confront the changing realities of their lives in colonial India in the backdrop of the independence movement and the second world war. The author draws attention to the personal histories of these women, which informed their views on education, womanhood, marriage, female autonomy, family, and politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Engaging and insightful, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of literature and history, gender and culture studies, and for general readers interested in women and travel writing.
Women in Bengal
| Author | : Sudarshana Sen |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2024-07-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1040109586 |
Download Women in Bengal Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book analyses the status of women in Bengal, India, by examining the versatile everyday living conditions of women, and how they are represented as individuals and as a category in the media. Contributors to the book start their discussion from the point that women in India have a varied experience of living, thinking, and acting specific to the regional cultural context. Caste ideology specified privileges and sanctions according to innate attributes, differ by sex as well as ethnicity, class, caste, minority status, and marginal position intersect lives and render unique life experiences. With a focus on women and their lived experiences, performances by them and performances imitating women’s roles, the book offers a complex and rich analysis of the reality of women’s lives based on research and reflections by 25 scholars. Organised into two sections, the book presents women in reality, their living conditions, struggles, and women as represented in films, stories, framed in plots sometimes by women and sometimes by men. The chapters provide insights on how institutionalised gender distinctions create subordination and marginality of women and their struggles to survive in a society dominated by heteropatriarchal ideology and its practice. This book improves our understanding of various dimensions of gender and transgender relations in India. It will be of interest to researchers in Gender Studies, South Asian Culture and Society, and Studies on India.
The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939
| Author | : Sonia Amin |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2021-10-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004491406 |
Download The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This highly interesting book studies the cultural context of modernisation of middle-class Muslim women in late 19th- and 20th-century Bengal. Its frames of reference are the Bengal 'Awakening', the Reform Movements -- Brahmo/Hindi and Muslim -- and the Women's Question as articulated in material and ideological terms throughout the period. Tracing the emergence of the modern Muslim gentlewomen, the bhadramahilā, starting in 1876 when Nawab Faizunnesa Chaudhurani published her first book and ending with the foundation in 1939 of The Lady Brabourne College, the book gives an excellent analysis of the rise of a Muslim woman's public sphere and broadens our knowledge of Bengali social history in the colonial period.
A Woman's Ramayana
| Author | : Mandakranta Bose |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2013-07-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1135071268 |
Download A Woman's Ramayana Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Rāmāyana, an ancient epic of India, with audiences across vast stretches of time and geography, continues to influence numberless readers socially and morally through its many re-tellings. Made available in English for the first time, the 16th century version presented here is by Candrāvatī, a woman poet from Bengal. It is a highly individual rendition as a tale told from a woman's point of view which, instead of celebrating masculine heroism, laments the suffering of women caught in the play of male ego. This book presents a translation and commentary on the text, with an extensive introduction that scrutinizes its social and cultural context and correlates its literary identity with its ideological implications. Taken together, the narrative and the critical study offered here expand the understanding both of the history of women’s self-expression in India and the cultural potency of the epic tale. The book is of interest equally to students and researchers of South Asian narratives, Rāmāyana studies and gender issues.
