Gender Issues : Attestations and Contestations
Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. How to read--or rather, how not to read the writing of women/Shashi Deshpande. 2. Memories of the second sex: gender and sexuality in women's writing/Malashri Lal. 3. Gender and sexuality in contemporary Indian English women's poetry/Nishat Haider. 4. Appropriating the male space: a study of Krishna Sobti's Mitro Marjani/Madhu Singh. 5. The pen that defies the sword: Taslima Nasreen's All About Women/A.K. Tiwari. 6. Re-defining boundaries: thinking gender roles in Dopdi, Chauth ka Joda and Pinjar/Mini Nanda. 7. Gendered violence: narrating partition/Poonam Yadav. 8. Women's experience of partition: a study of Jyotirmoyee Devi's The River Churning/Neena Arora. 9. Gazing objects: women in Ezekiel's poetry/Shaila Mahan. 10. Community narratives as a source of empowerment: Bama's Sangati/Sunita Agarwal. 11. Centering the marginality: the poetry of Melanie Silgardo/Priyanka Agarwal. 12. The spilt-self in the poetry of Kamala Das/Manjeet. 13. Psycho-dynamics of women in the postmodern literature of the east and west/Veena Nobel Das. 14. An analysis of social and political constraints in the writings on the women of royal families/Jayshree Singh. 15. Suppressed voices: a study of three Victorian poems/Asha Viswas. 16. Being and becoming: the progressive dialectics of Adrienne Rich/Pratibha. 17. Gender and social stratification in contemporary India/K.L. Sharma. 18. A hen crowing: women and political power/Vasanth Kannabiran. 19. Women achievers/Shovana Narayan. 20. Bridging the gap between urban and rural women with special reference to Jharkhand/Lakshmi Singh. 21. Importance of section 498-A (IPC) in arresting unnatural deaths of women: the Gujarat experience/Ila Pathak. 22. Changing patterns of man-woman relationship: an interview with Professor Yogendra Singh/Joya Chakravarty. Index.
"The essays in the volume are yet another attempt at re-opening gender issues which have gained ground in this post-feminist era. Despite half a century of debate and rebellion there is still an unevenness that disrupts smooth sailing. Women have not entirely come into their own and the stigma of being born one persists to plague.
What is the nature of pressures and obstacles and how and where the hurdles lie is being explored afresh. The space is the literary and the socio-political; the time frame is contemporary; and the analysis is topical." (jacket)
