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Gendered Trajectories: Discourses of Difference, Resistance and Empowerment

Gendered Trajectories: Discourses of Difference, Resistance and Empowerment

Author: Edited by Parna Ghose & Monalisa Jha

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Categories: History
Year January 2025
Edition First
Pages 320
Size 5.5″ x 8.5″
Binding HB
ISBN 978-81-95816-5-7

 

This compilation of seventeen essays highlights the varied paths that Gender Studies has taken in the twenty-first century. Written by scholars from disciplines such as Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, and History, these essays examine the impact of women’s question on diverse areas, including legislation, social reform, activism, and literature. The purpose of this publication is to present a range of approaches, methods, and methodologies that can enrich the growing domain of Gender Studies, and aims to provide both a comprehensive view of the discipline today and a vision for its potential directions in the future.

Content

Preface

Introduction

Geraldine Forbes

Section I

Crossing Thresholds: Historical Perspectives

  1. Women’s Movement in India: Reaching for Half the Sky

Vibhuti Patel

  1. ‘Her Story’ Unfolding over Time

Debi Chatterjee

  1. Women in Indian Freedom Struggle: An Overview

Basabi Chakraborty

  1. The Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act of 1856: The Journey of a Law in Colonial Bengal

Aparna Bandyopadhyay

  1. Remembering the Re-membered Birangona

Perween Hasan

 

Section II

Agency and Repression: Literary Perspectives

  1. Women’s Authorial Assertion: Discursive Tracts and Self-Narratives in 19th Century Bengal

Maroona Murmu

  1. Gender Violence through Dowry: Tagore’s Perception

Siuli Sarkar

  1. Wife in the Rgveda

Mau Das Gupta

  1. Markandya: The Quest for Autonomy

Swati Mukerji

10. Interpreting the Female Gaze: Indian Travel Writing, Gender & Globalisation

Somdatta Mandal

  1. Understanding the Position of Women through the Lens of Gender and Language: Focusing on Bengali Language and Visual Media

Samragnee Bandyopadhyay

 

Section III

The Politics of Gender: Socio-economic Perspectives

  1. Notes on Engagement with Dalit Feminist Political Thought

Putul Sathe

  1. Women in the Informal Economy: Past, Present & Future

Sanchita Mitra

  1. Gender Inequality Impacting on Women’s Participation in the Labour Market: The Case of the Domestic Workers

Siuli Jana

  1. ‘Her Story’ in Police: One Step Forward or Two Steps Backward?

Tumpa Mukherjee

  1. ‘Her Story’ – Women’s Narrative through the Lens of a Clinical Psychologist

Sreemoyee Tarafder

  1. Gendering Science: What History of Science Can Show Us

Projit Bihari Mukharji

Contributors

 

Edited by Parna Ghose & Monalisa Jha

Dr. Parna Ghose is Associate Professor, Department of English and Director of Women’s Studies Centre, Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata. Among her edited volumes are Women’s Voices: Visions and Perspectives and Re-visioning Sister Nivedita. She is also the editor of the peer-reviewed journal Newsletter published by the Women’s Studies Centre of the College.

Ms. Monalisa Jha is Assistant Professor, Department of English and Joint Director of Women’s Studies Centre, Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata. Her areas of interest include Gender Studies, Autobiography Studies and Neo Victorian Literature. She is especially interested in the linkages and conflicts within the theorizations and praxes of Gender Studies and Feminist Studies, as they play out in the interface between academia and activism.

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