All About Women

Author: Taslima Nasreen
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 64
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129106302

Description

Translated by Taslima Nasreen herself, the poems in All about Women reflect the passion which makes her a feminist, a staunch fighter for women’s rights and against religions fundamentalism and oppression against women. They speak for a broad and secular outlook. As she herself says in one of her poems. From now on let religion’s other name be humanity.

The poems in this collection have been translated from the original Bengali by the poet herself. The paintings included in the book are by Rabindranath Tagore.

Contents

PUBLISHERS’ NOTE

My Humanity
Edul Wara
The Poem of Sabita
East and West
The Dowry
Phoolan Devi
Mokka-Modina
Garment Girls
Women and Poems
The Woman Breaking Bricks
Happy Marriage
The Unrung Ring
Border
Self-portrait
Venomous
Sad Girl
Liberation
The Girl from Switzerland
Character
Run!Run!
Acquaintance
Bad Omen
On the Banks of the Seine
We Women
At the Back of Progress
Bibi Khadija
Female Goods
Hardly a Poem
My Mother’s Story
The Game in Reverse
Anna Karenina
Eve, Oh Eve!
Another Life
The Commodity
Women
The Prostitutes of Amsterdam
Short Stories