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There’s no country for a woman. Time and again, patriarchy has held her back. And yet, as history reveals, there have been women who broke all shackles and soared like they had wings.   This selection of writings by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Bengal’s earliest feminist writer, includes her canonical work ‘Sultana’s Dream’ along with some equally important but lesser-known works. Set against the backof surging nationalism and reform in twentieth-century Bengal, these writings revolve around the theme of women’s status in a patriarchal set-up, and Rokeya’s comments on the ‘feeble’ Bengali society, purdah system, religion, and the idea of a perfect housewife. This collection captures the true spirit of a South Asian proto-feminist and opens up a factual, fictional, and fantastical-utopian world that has remained largely unknown and unheard of outside Bengal. 

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