9789385606212
Women Unlimited 2019
Language: English
241 Pages
Price INR 675.0 Not Available
Book Club Price INR 540.0 USD
9789385606212
Women Unlimited 2019
Language: English
241 Pages
Price INR 675.0 Not Available
Book Club Price INR 540.0 USD
In 1940/41, a young Punjabi woman, ‘Mrs A.’, ill at ease in her marriage and eager for personal and national freedom, sat down with psychiatrist, Dev Satya Nand, for an experiment in his new method of dream analysis. Her analysis included a surge of emotion and reflections on sexuality, gender, marriage, ambition, trauma, and mythology. She turned to archetypal female figures from Hindu myth—Shakuntala, Draupadi, Ahalya—to reimagine her social world and its ethical arrangements, envisioning a future beyond marriage, colonial rule and gender constraints. In a brilliant reading of Mrs A.’s conversations with Dr Satya Nand, the author opens a window onto gender and sexuality in late colonial Indian society, and the ways in which Mrs A. put ethics in motion, creating alternatives to ideals of belonging, recognition and consciousness. Her account is an inspired example of thinking beyond the known.
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