A Space of Her Own: Personal Narratives of Twelve Women.HQ1742 2004-029805 0-7619-3315-8 A space of her own; personal narratives of twelve women. Title main entry. Ed. by Leela Gulati and Jasodhara Bagchi Jasodhara Bagchi is a leading Indian feminist critic and activist. Biography She was born in 1937 and educated at Presidency College, Kolkata, Somerville College, Oxford, and New Hall, Cambridge. . Sage Publications This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , [c]2005 275 p. $24.95 (pa) This collection features 12 essays written by 12 Indian academics, school teachers, principals, writers, and performers discussing the position of women in India's patriarchal society. Focusing more on women's relations with each other than on women's subservient sub·ser·vi·ent adj. 1. Subordinate in capacity or function. 2. Obsequious; servile. 3. Useful as a means or an instrument; serving to promote an end. position to Indian men, the authors examine their individual struggles within several generations of their families--great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers, themselves, their own daughters--covering a span of 100-plus years. They reveal how they were able to create a sphere of autonomy for themselves, and the ways that their female relatives paved the way for that independence. For students and scholars in women's studies women's studies pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) An academic curriculum focusing on the roles and contributions of women in fields such as literature, history, and the social sciences. and culture studies, and feminists, activists, and general readers interested in the status of women in India The status of women in India has been subject to great many changes over the past few millennia. From a largely unknown status in ancient times through the low points of the medieval period, to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers, the history of women in India has been . |
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