1st Edition
Women in Bengal In Reality and Through Representations
Introduction Part I: Women in Bengal: In Reality Chapter 1. The Partition, Changing Mindscapes and Evolving Contours of Intimacy, Aparna Bandopadhayay; Chapter 2. Peeping in a Girls’ Madrasa in Malda: Getting an Insider’s view, Srabonti Choudhuri; Chapter 3. Debating the Livelihood Narratives of Home-based Zari Working Women of Panchla Area, West Bengal, Malinee Mukherjee; Chapter 4. Care Crises Facing the Urban Middle-Class Elderly Women in India, Sinjini Roy; Chapter 5. Exploring Liminality in Jatra Performances, Amrita Middey; Chapter 6. Contradictions at the Feminine Space of a Kali Temple, Soma Dutta; Chapter 7. Plight of Tiger widows of Sundarbans: Their Struggle, Cyclone and Pandemic, Sudeshna Saha; Chapter 8. Acid Attacks in West Bengal, Tumpa Mukherjee; Chapter 9. Motherhood: A Sacred desire or predicament? Keya Bagchi; Chapter 10. Unfolding Voices: Addressing the issues of Inconsistencies in studying The Indian Jewish Women, Shrabani Majumdar; Chapter 11. Conflicting well-being of earth and future generation: Gendered fertility crisis in West Bengal, Nibedita Bayen; Chapter 12. Political Perception and Engagement of selected women professional of Kolkata: A Qualitative Focus Group Study, Siuli Mukherjee and A. K. Mukherjee; Chapter 13. Looking forward at Livelihood Question Through the Lens of Gender and Sexuality as perceived by Transfeminine Individuals, Srabasti Majumdar; Chapter 14. Relocating the subaltern voice in the ‘hijra’ subjectivity(s): a Sociological Analysis of a lifestory, Anwesha Bhattacharyya; Chapter 15. The ‘Invisible Half’: Women’s Work in India in the Twenty-First Century, Nandini Mukherjee, Sanjukta De, and Jhilam Roy; Chapter 16. Women, Linguistic Violence and Marginalization in India: An Exploration, Chandrabali Dutta; Chapter 17. Exploring Institutional Birth and Organizational Culture: A Case Study of Matritva-Griha, Rukmani Sharma Part II: Women in Bengal: Through Representations Chapter 18. Anglo-Indian Women in Indian Cinema: Characters and Performances, Sudarshana Sen; Chapter 19. Hyper Visible or Visibly Undervalued? Women in Post Pandemic Bengali Print Advertisement, Amrita Basu Roychowdhury; Chapter 20. Denying Manhood and Becoming Women: Case Studies from India’s Past and Present, Rajarshi Chakraborty; Chapter 21. Sociological Study on the Journey of Devi Manasa towards the acknowledgement of her Divinity, Suparna Sarkar; Chapter 22. Donna Hoke's Digital Essay on Intimate (Male) Rape, Epistemic Apertures, and Fourth- Wave Feminism in India: An Argument, Kusumika Dasgupta; Chapter 23. Social Media Advertisements and Women’s Empowerment: Imprints of Change? Tanusree Paul; Chapter 24. Women in Rituparno Ghosh’s Cinema: A Selective Study, Mimi Bhattacharyya; Chapter 25. Centering the Margin: Rabindranath Tagore, Nation-building and Mother-Child Intimacy, Nabamita Das; Appendix; Index
Biography
Sudarshana Sen is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Gour Banga, India. She is the author of Anglo-Indian Women in Transition (2017).
