TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rajul Bhargava, ed.
TI  - Gender issues: attestations and contestations 
SN  - 9788131603246
U1  - 820.99287 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Jaipur
PB  - Rawat
KW  - Women writing- Women authors-Female authors
KW  - Gender issues-Literature
KW  - Women issues-Poetry
KW  - Women achievers
N2  - The essays in this study examine gender issues in South Asian literature, 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 in the area of literary criticism/gender studies. In many cultures, women still have not entirely come into their own. As well, oftentimes there's still a stigma attached to being born as female. What is the nature of the pressures and obstacles? How and where do the hurdles lie? In this book - where the space is the literary and the socio-political; and the time frame is contemporary - the analysis is topical. 
Contents include: 
How to Read - Or Rather, How Not to Read the Writing of Women 
* Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Indian English Women's Poetry 
* Appropriating the Male Space: A Study of Krishna Sobti's Mitro Marjani
 * The Pen that Defies the Sword: Taslima Nasreen's All About Women 
* Re-defining Boundaries: Thinking Gender Roles in Dopdi, Chauth ka Joda, and Pinjar 
* Women's Experience of Partition: A Study of Jyotirmoyee Devi's The River Churning
 * Community Narratives as a Source of Empowerment: Bama's Sangati 
* Centering the Marginality: The Poetry of Melanie Silgardo
 * The Spilt-Self in the Poetry of Kamala Das 
* Psycho-Dynamics of Women in the Postmodern Literature of the East and West
 * Gender and Social Stratification in Contemporary India 
* Bridging the Gap between Urban and Rural Women with Special Reference to Jharkhand 
* Changing Patterns of Man-Woman Relationship: An Interview with Professor Yogendra Singh 
* and more

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