Beyond the Binaries: Tracing Women's Autonomous Struggle in Bengali Periodicals (1863-1924)

无数的孟加拉女作家，如罗凯亚·谢卡瓦特·侯赛因和卡米尼·库马里·古普塔，表达了她们对世纪强加于她们身上的父权制女性准则的异议。为了提升“安塔普尔”的地位，印度教生活的内部/私人领域在意识形态上预示了19世纪世纪巴德拉克在殖民地孟加拉的民族自治能力。改革项目要求普及安塔赫普尔妇女教育，并建立一种新的女性气质，其主要特点是传统的女性美德，而期刊媒体是这种美德的重要工具。一系列的女性作家开始出现在孟加拉文学舞台上，以推进民族主义议程。从19世纪后半叶到20世纪初，总共有21种妇女期刊开始发行。我已经着手研究1863-1924年在孟加拉发行的15种期刊中的妇女作品。

Countless Bengali women writers like Rokeya Shekhawat Hossein and Kamini Kumari Guptavoiced their dissent against the patriarchal codes of femininity that were imposed on them in the19th century. To elevate the status of the 'antahpur', the inner/private domain of the Hindu lifeideologically presaged the 19th century Bhadralak's competence for national self-rule in colonialBengal. The reform project entailed popularization of antahpur education for women andconstruction of a new femininity, characterized primarily by traditional feminine virtues forwhich the periodical medium served as a vital instrument. A flurry of women's periodicalsstarted appearing in the Bengali literary scene to carry forward the nationalist agenda. A total oftwenty-one women's periodicals came into circulation from the latter half of the 19th century toearly 20th century.1 I have undertaken the project of looking at women's writings in fifteen ofthese periodicals that were in circulation in Bengal from 1863-1924.