Ideals, Images and Real Lives: Women in Literature and History

by Alice Thorner (Editor), Maithreyi Krishnaraj

By use of the methods of history, literary criticism and analysis of discourse, this volume seeks not only to illustrate the broadening of the sphere of women studies in India in recent years, but also to point to the need for relating ideas about women and gender relations to the social and economic forces that shape history. Its chapters are partial accounts drawn from writings in English in a single journal, the Economic and Political Weekly, over the years. The selection is offered as a set of exemplars of feminist historiography which may help to clarify the formation of gender.

353 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2000