"Sharmistha Dutta Gupta focusses on the writings of middle class Bengali women in six or seven literary and political journals between the 1920s and 1950s - 'Probasi', 'Saogat', 'Jayashree', 'Mandira', 'Ghare-Baire' and 'Swadhinata'. Each of these represented a different political ideology and the author explores how this influenced the policy of the journals and women's writing... the book reveals that women were not politically passive and that these journals contributed in creating political awareness and a space for women to debate and write on these issues which were not purely domestic."
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Sharmistha Dutta Gupta, Identities
and Histories: Women's Writings and Politics in Bengal, Stree, Kolkata, 2010, pp.294, Rs.700
DOI:
10.1177/0257643013482407
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