Utopies féministes et expérimentations urbaines
|Deuxième partie. Construction des lieux, construction des genres
Education, women’s narrative, and feminist civil society activism: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s feminist utopias
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This paper will focus on two feminist utopian narratives by the Indian and Bengali Muslim feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, the English work Sultana’s Dream (1905) and the Bengali work Padmarag, or The Ruby (1924), which I have recently compiled, translated (in the case of Padmarag), and introduced in a modern edition1. I shall analyse and contextualise these narratives within Rokeya’s broader career as feminist, urban civil society activist, and educator. I shall move to a consideration of how real-life female civil society activism, the imaginative conceptualization of female spaces and communities, and education seen in a non-docile, dialectical way intermesh, to create, simultaneously, weapons for transforming the present, and a sense of elusive horizons of empowerment of the marginalized.
For those unacquainted with her work, the South Asian feminist Rokeya S. Hossain (1880-1932) was a superb polemical feminist essayist and novelist, a pioneering educator of Muslim girls and fou...
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