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Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Sultana's Dream

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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.
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2013
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2013
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  • Andrea Poulainje podelio/la utisakпре 5 година
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    Está interesante y vale la pena mencionar que la historia de Sultana's Dream es anterior a la Matriarcada de Charlotte Perkins.

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  • Andrea Poulainje citiralaпре 5 година
    Katherine Mayo had an overriding political purpose: to ridicule Indian aspirations for national independence by writing a sensational account purportedly “exposing” issues relating to women, family life, sexuality, and seclusion. Her highly moralistic account focuses on purdah—which she calls “life imprisonment within the four walls of the home”—and early marriage. In a typical passage, she writes that Indians suffered from “undeniable race deterioration” brought on by “sexual indulgence,” which made “their hands … too weak, too fluttering to seize or hold the reins of Government” at the age when “the Anglo-Saxon is just coming into full glory of manhood.”16 Although Mayo’s account has been praised by modern feminist writers,17 her obvious political purposes and her racism make her a very unreliable witness.
  • Andrea Poulainje citiralaпре 5 година
    Seen from this perspective, the issue of honor provides men with extraordinary power to control female behavior, precisely because men are passionately concerned with safeguarding their “derivative” honor
  • Andrea Poulainje citiralaпре 5 година
    Rokeya wrote as a Muslim about purdah among Muslims in Bengal (present-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal), but it is hard to reconstruct life in purdah only from her utopian mirror images.
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