The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-90-04-10642-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia

This highly interesting book studies the cultural context of modernisation of middle-class Muslim women in late 19th- and 20th-century Bengal. Its frames of reference are the Bengal 'Awakening', the Reform Movements -- Brahmo/Hindi and Muslim -- and the Women's Question as articulated in material and ideological terms throughout the period. Tracing the emergence of the modern Muslim gentlewomen, the bhadramahila, starting in 1876 when Nawab Faizunnesa Chaudhurani published her first book and ending with the foundation in 1939 of The Lady Brabourne College, the book gives an excellent analysis of the rise of a Muslim woman's public sphere and broadens our knowledge of Bengali social history in the colonial period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amin, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Sonia Nishat Amin, Ph.D. (1994), University of Dhaka, is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Dhaka. She has published extensively on women's history in Bengal and contributed to various anthologies on women, including From the Seams of History (1995) and Mind, Body and Society in Colonial Bengal (1996).