Author: Eunice De Souza
Lindsay Pereira/
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 451
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195667859
Description
This anthology brings together the writings of some Indian women who made pioneering social and literary contributions during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Traversing a wide canvas, the excerpts taken from letters, tracts, diaries, magazines, articles, autobiographies, short stories, and even speeches discuss theatre, dance, travel, and personal experiences, while other dwell on social issues. Doctrinal problems, orthodox practices, and the position of women in society. The book will interest anyone interested in women’s literature of modern India.
REVIEWS
Women’s Voices can be read for pleasure alone, or for considering the wide range of women’s writings (personal letters, letters to editors, letters to friends in jail, reminiscences, columns in newspapers, fiction, exhortations)..The lucid and informed Introduction, places the individual pieces as well as the collection in historical context.
-The Book Review
These writings, provide a window into how the women themselves were reacting to this so-called women’s question, It is a commendable effort in putting into one volume well-known personalities like Toru Dutt, Pandita Ramabai, Cornelia Sorabji and Sarojini Naidu, along with the lesser known Herabai Tata, Shovana Devi, and Iqbalunnisa Husain.
-Hindustan Times
An interesting as the contest of their writing is the life of the writers themselves, compiled in brief biographical sketches by coeditor, Lindsay Pereira, The contributions are delightful, thought-provoking and varied.
-Verve
Women’s Voices offers us a wide range of writing in English fiction, including stories for children, autobiographies, articles, letters-private and public, an informative Introduction to the period by Eunice de Souza adds to the usefulness of the volume.
-One India, One People
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Dosebai Cowasjee Jessawalla
Toru Dutt
Pandita Ramabai
Anapurna Turkhad
Krupabai Satthianadhan
Shevantibai M Nikambe
Maharanee Sunity Devee CI of Cooch Behar
Cornelia Sorabji
Susie Sorabji
Dr Rukhmabai
Mahabrani Chimnabai Gaekwad II of Baroda
F K Patuck
Herabai Tata
Lady Mehri Dorab Tata
Kitty Shiva Rao
Sakinatul Fatima Wazir Hasan
Sarojini Naidu
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Nalini Turkhud
Dr S Mutthulakshmi Reddy
Hansa Mehta
Ruttie Jinnah
Mithan Choksi
Ela Sen
Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Kamaladevi Chatopadhyaay
Zeenuth Futehally
Krishna Nehru Hutteesing
Sucheta Kripalani
Aruna Asaf Ali
Venu Chitale (Leelabai Ganesh Khae)
Amrita Sher-Gil
Ramabai, C T (Ramabai Trikannad)
Noor-Un-Nisa Inayat Khan
Snehalata Sen
Shovona Devi
Iqbalunnisa Hussain
Santha Rama Rau
G Ishvani
Brinda Maharani of Kapurthala
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