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Sultana's Dream: And Selections from the Secluded Ones Reprint edition
Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein
Sultana's Dream: And Selections from the Secluded Ones Reprint edition
Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein
Sultana?s Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopia?a tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world.
"The Secluded Ones" is a selection of short sketches, first published in Bengali newspapers, illuminating the cruel and comic realities of life in purdah.
Suggested for course use in:
History
Indian Literature
South Asian Studies
Utopian Fiction
Women?s Studies
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880 - 1932) was a Bengali Muslim writer and feminist activist who founded the first Muslim girls? school in Calcutta in 1911.
89 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | February 18, 1993 |
ISBN13 | 9780935312836 |
Publishers | Feminist Press at The City University of |
Pages | 89 |
Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 8 mm · 142 g |
Language | English |
Contributor | Hanna Papanek |
Contributor | Roshan Jahan |
Contributor | Roushan Jahan |
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