For Home, Family & Nation: Women & the Politics of Gender in Bengal, 1870–1947

The woman question’ accommodated material and political changes in the twentieth century, against a backdrop of growing economic crisis, rising unemployment, declining public health, rural degeneration, the dislocation of war, and the increasing participation of women in employment and politics. The lives of the bhadramahila (generally, upper-caste educated women) and the rise of the ‘New Woman’ in late-colonial Bengal has attracted significant critical interest. However, For Home, Family, and Nation, is the first full-length study to focus on the evolution of gender issues in nationalist politics in Bengal and study the complex relationship between feminism, nationalism, and communalism, over a period of eight decades, from the 1870s onwards. Thisbook examines the flexibility of this strand of nationalist thought, which constantly adjusted to new methods of selection and appropriation.

• | Author: Aparajita Dasgupta-Sengupta
• | Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
• | Publication Date: Dec 15, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9789354429187
• | ISBN-10: 9354429181