Women in South Asia Through the Ages

Contents: 1. Empowerment: for breaking the chains. 2. Abolish not alleviate. 3. An unfair share--of burdens and bounties. 4. What men have made of women. 5. Women in the market place. 6. A rebel par excellence. 7. Sultan Razia: the ruler who challenged the established order. 8. Women in history--the Bengal pioneers. 9. Medical pioneer in the service of humanity. 10. A call to arms not to ornaments. 11. Life is short, but art is long. 12. A tale of two different sisters. 13. Women in the world of Rabindranath in fiction and family. 14. The unsung heroines of 1971. 15. Benazir, we Salute Thee. 16. Not a tale of two only. 17. Failing at fairness: gender bias in an affluent society. 18. Of human bondage.

"The present book Women in South Asia: Through the Ages is a collection of articles- eighteen in number-written during 1993-95 and published in the "Women on the Move" page of the newspaper The Daily Star.

These articles, while presenting the lives and activities of a number of illustrious South Asian Women, attempt to explain and analyse the problems faced by women in the last decade of the twentieth century. In some of the articles, the author has offered her views on how to change and improve the status, lives and prospects of women in general." (jacket)