Tagore′s Ideas of the New Woman: The Making and Unmaking of Female Subjectivity

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Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
PART I 
BEYOND ESSENTIALISM
	CHAPTER 1  Tagore and Woman
	CHAPTER 2 Shantiniketan
PART II NATURE AND SPIRITUALITY
	CHAPTER 3 Gender and the Spiritual Quest in Tagore’s Poetry
	CHAPTER 4 Rabindranath’s Chandalika
PART III REALM OF DOMESTICITY
	CHAPTER 5 Domestic Space in Tagore’s Fiction
	CHAPTER 6 Tagore’s Docile Daughters
	CHAPTER 7 Re-reading Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Streer Patra’ (The Wife’s Letter, 1914) in the Light of Epistolary Culture in Colonial India
PART IV SELFHOOD AND AGENCY
	CHAPTER 8 How to Fool Women
	CHAPTER 9 The Dichotomies of Body and Mind Spaces
	CHAPTER 10 ‘Bimala Is What She Is’
PART V WOMEN IN TRAVEL WRITINGS
	CHAPTER 11 The ‘Other’ Women in Tagore’s Travels to Europe
	CHAPTER 12 Rabindranath Tagore’s Travelogues and the Absent Female Voice
PART VI WOMEN IN OTHER ARTS
	CHAPTER 13 Gender in Rabindrasangeet
	CHAPTER 14 Breaking the Mould
	CHAPTER 15 Women in Tagore’s Dance-Dramas
	CHAPTER 16 Tagore’s New Woman and the Contradictions of Patriarchy
About the Editors and Contributors