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Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women's Writing

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  • © 2010

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  1. Elizabeth Jackson
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-14

  3. Women, Cultural Identity and Social Class

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    Pages 15-51

  4. Marriage and Sexuality

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    Pages 52-83

  5. Motherhood and Other Work

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    Pages 84-110

  6. Women’s Role in Maintaining and/or Resisting Patriarchy

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    Pages 111-140

  7. Form and Narrative Strategy

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    Pages 141-175

  8. Conclusion

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    Pages 176-178

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 179-200
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About this book

This book is a comparative and developmental study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, and Shashi Deshpande, among the best known and most prolific Indian novelists writing in English, who have been self-consciously engaged with women's issues during the postcolonial era.

About the author

ELIZABETH JACKSON is a Sessional Lecturer in Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where she teaches courses on Victorian, colonial and postcolonial literatures. She has also taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she earned her PhD in 2007.

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