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

无数孟加拉女作家，如Rokeya Shekhawat Hossein和Kamini Kumari guptat，表达了她们对19世纪强加于她们身上的男权女性准则的异议。为了提升“antahpur”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Bhadralak在孟加拉殖民地的民族自治能力。改革项目包括普及妇女教育和建立一种新的女性气质，其主要特点是传统的女性美德，而期刊媒介是实现这种美德的重要工具。为了推进民族主义议程，孟加拉文坛开始出现一系列女性期刊。从19世纪下半叶到20世纪初，共有21种妇女期刊进入流通我进行了一个研究项目，研究从1863年到1924年在孟加拉发行的15种期刊中的女性作品。

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.