Comprising translations of women's writings of Brahmo, Hindu and Muslim writers
of undivided Bengal (involving present-day Bangladesh), which were published in
well-known Bengali periodicals (between 18651947), such as Bamabodhini Patrika,
Prabasi, Antahpur, Bharati, Bangadarshan,Bharatlakshmi, Saogat, Nabanoor, and so
on, this volume is the third reader compiled by the School of Women's Studies,
Jadavpur University, for the new Masters' level courses in women's studies.
Focussing on a period, of reform, conflict, change and debate, the reader
explores the multi-layered social conversation about women's issues and maps the
changes in the life practices and beliefs of women as reflected in their
writings with the progression of time. While there is