• ISBN13: 9788126931330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 15, 2020
• Pages: 264
• Original Price: INR 895.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 420 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

Feminism and Gender Discourse: A Revisioning aims to showcase various discussions related to gender discourse, be it through fiction, drama, or poetry. Feminism in India is a set of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for Indian women. It is the pursuit of women’s rights within the society in India. Like their feminist counterparts all over the world, feminists in India seek gender equality—the right to equal wage for same work, the right to equal access to health and education, and equal political rights. Indian feminists also have fought against culture-specific issues within India’s patriarchal society, such as inheritance laws and the practice of widow immolation, known as Sati. Using a feminist lens, this book examines the relationship between feminism and gender discourse by various authors. Let us see how these writers have voiced the concern of women’s hopes and aspirations, and their fulfilments or frustrations. The aim of this book is to bring those voices to the forefront and examine their stories in the context of representing gender issues.

Dr. Neeru Tandon, M.A., L.L.B., Ph.D., D.Litt., is an Associate Professor and Head at the Postgraduate Department of English, VSSD College, Kanpur. She is also an editor, author, critic, feminist, and poet. Her area of interest lies mainly in the contemporary fiction, particularly in Indian-English, Afro-American, and Canadian Women Writers. She has several publications to her credit that includes 24 books and 98 research papers. A large number of scholarly papers by her have been published in many books, national and international referred journals, and e-journals. She takes personality development and English-speaking classes for professionals in various institutes. She is editor of Illuminati (an international journal); associate editor of The Atlantic Critical Review, associate editor of The Expression; chairperson and co-coordinator of ELT@I (Kanpur chapter), executive member of AESI (North Zone), founder secretary of KUAES, and executive member of Kanpur Vikas Mandap. MHRD and UGC have appointed her as paper coordinator for their project of ‘e-PG Pathshala’.

• Preface
• Contributors
• 1. Feminist Theoretical Models: Questions from the Indian Context
• Anita Singh
• 2. Gender on Stage: A Select Study of Contemporary Indian Feminist Plays
• Shreyasee Dutta
• 3. Gendered Re-visioning and a New Poetics: Feminist Cultural Practice from North East India
• Debashree Dattaray
• 4. Feminism and Feminist Discourse in the Writings of Dé and Gokhale
• Neeru Tandon and Preeti Tiwari
• 5. Feminism: Against a Rebuttal of Desire
• Bandna K. Burman
• 6. Culture, Patriarchy and Religion with Reference to Indian Feminism: Autobiographical Musings of Sarah Aboobackar
• Ambika G. Mallaya
• 7. Complex Growths: Ice-Candy-Man and Sisterhood
• Eiko Ohira
• 8. Politics of Child-bearing in Ismat Chughtai’s “Touch-Me-Not” (Chhooi Mui) and “Two Hands” (Do Haath)
• Tanvi Sharma
• 9. Margaret Atwood’s Bodily Harm: A Feminist Perspective
• Anshul Chandra and Neeru Tandon
• 10. From Coziness through Confusion to Reconciliation: The Journey of Das’ Women
• Sandhya V. and Harini Jayaraman
• 11. Feminism in India: A Study of Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence
• Aarti Verma and Rashmi Singh
• 12. Sultana’s Dream: “Ladyland” Amidst Nationalist “Tradition” and Colonial “Modernity”
• Paromita Bose
• 13. Within and Beyond ‘Women’s Studies’
• Aratrika Das
• 14. Woman and Her Conjugal Realities: Unmasking the Façade
• Kratika Nanda and Shalika Kapoor
• 15. “The Renaissance Seeker or Wisdom”: Nation Nation, Woman and Rajmohan’s Wife
• Saptarshi Mallick
• 16. Ruskin Bond’s Susanna’s Seven Husbands as a Manifesto of Feminist Criminology
• Panchali Mukherjee
• 17. “No Country for Women”: An Analysis of Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape as a Feminist Fiction
• Aparna Sundaram
• 18. The Forty Rules of Love: Mundane or Divine?
• Shyam Samtani
• 19. Breaking the Shackles of Colonization: Emergence of the New Woman in Kundanika Kapadia’s Novel Sat Pagala Akash Ma
• Fatima Sugurwala
• 20. In Search of Human Self Beyond Gender: A Critical Appraisal of Gender Issues in the Plays of Dattani
• Beena Agarwal