Sultanas Dream A Feminist Utopia

Author : Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558617353
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sultana's Dream: A Feminist Utopia written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sultanas Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopiaa tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world."The Secluded Ones" is a selection of short sketches, first published in Bengali newspapers, illuminating the cruel and comic realities of life in purdah.

Author : Roquia Sakhawat Hussain
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781091413177
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sultana's Dream: Annotated written by Roquia Sakhawat Hussain and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-24 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sultana's Dream is a classic work of Bengali science fiction and one of the first examples of feminist science fiction. This short story was written in 1905 by Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, a Muslim feminist, writer and social reformer who lived in British India, in what is now Bangladesh. The word sultana here means a female sultan, a Muslim ruler.Sultana's Dream was originally published in English in The Indian Ladies Magazine of Madras (1905), and is considered part of Bengali literature. It depicts a feminist utopia in which women run everything and men are secluded, in a mirror-image of the traditional practice of purdah. The women are aided by technology which enables laborless farming and flying cars; the female scientists have discovered how to use solar power and control the weather. Crime is eliminated, since men were responsible for all of it. The workday is only two hours long, since men used to waste six hours of each day in smoking. The religion is one of love and truth. Purity is held above all, such that the list of "sacred relations" (mahram) is widely extended.

Author : Rokeẏā (Begama)
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9780935312836
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sultana's Dream and Selections from The Secluded Ones written by Rokeẏā (Begama) and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1988 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of a feminist utopia and discusses the Muslim custom of purdah, the seclusion and segregation of women.

Author : Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521573525
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sultana's Dream written by Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-09 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sultana's Dream is a 1905 feminist utopian story. It depicts a feminist utopia in which women run everything and men are secluded. The women are aided by science fiction-esque technology.

Author : Begum Rokeya
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8728399188
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sultana's Dream written by Begum Rokeya and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Sultana’s Dream’ is an extraordinarily prescient story set in fictional Ladyland. The narrator, Sultana, falls asleep and is greeted by Sister Sara, who introduces her to the futuristic society she has apparently awakened in. In this alternate reality, men are shy and timid creatures, while women pioneer scientific breakthroughs, such as solar power and weather control. A fascinating and thought-provoking tale that leaves the reader to decide whether this is, in fact, a dream or a visit from an unseen future. Born in Rangpur, Begum Rokeya (1880 – 1932) was an author, political activist, and pioneer of women’s rights in South Asia. While her parents were wealthy, their religious beliefs meant that Rokeya and her sister were deprived of education. However, her brothers, who were both attending school, educated them by night. Rokeya’s literary career began when she was 22, with the publication of an essay, ‘Thirst’. This was followed up by two books, ‘Matichur’ and ‘Sultana’s Dream’. The latter took the bold step of reversing the roles of the sexes, in order to demonstrate what women are capable of contributing, given the chance. Her other works follow a similar thread, and Rokeya reinforced her beliefs by setting up the first school for Muslim girls. During her lifetime, she wrote 16 novels, including ‘The Fruit of Emancipation’ and ‘Education Ideals for the Modern Indian Girl’.

Author : Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 146559289X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sultana's Dream written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rokeya Hossain
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143137050
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sultana's Dream and Padmarag written by Rokeya Hossain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first science-fiction utopian stories and one of the first feminist utopias by celebrated pioneering feminist, educator, activist, and Bengali writer Rokeya Hossain A Penguin Classics Edition Sultana, a Muslim woman living in colonial India, falls asleep and wakes up in a transformed future world: a utopia in which men rather than women are relegated to the domestic sphere. Women, now free to explore the outside world at will and pursue an education, run a peaceful and just society, using scientific principles to harvest energy from the sun and live in harmony with nature. Sultana’s Dream was published in 1905 in the Indian Ladies Magazine, the first English language periodical edited by, and targeted at, Indian women. Like the periodical, the story broke new ground. As a pioneering work of science fiction and feminist utopian literature at the turn of the century, Sultana’s Dream is strikingly advanced in its critique of patriarchy, war, industrialization, and the exploitation of the natural world, speaking to the concerns of our contemporary world as much as its own. At a time when British colonialism was using the treatment of women in India as justification for colonial intervention there, Hossain’s story, in imagining a world in which men rather than women are kept inside, positions her protest against Islamic patriarchy within a larger feminist vision that takes on Western as well as Islamic forms of gender hierarchy. Her novella Padmarag is similarly utopian in its depiction of a women-run school and welfare center, and is both feminist and anti-colonial in its outlook. In both these works, Hossain seizes the critique of gender roles in India away from Western commentators and turns it against British interference, while also enlarging the critique to take on the problem of gender more broadly.

Author : Rokeẏā (Begama)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789383145188
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sultana's Dream written by Rokeẏā (Begama) and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a retelling of a hundred year old feminist fable. It begins with the narrator falling into a slumber and waking to a world where women are learned and men are content with their place in the kitchen. A smiley queen explains how this world came to be, and how women won thier peace against men and their warlike ways.

Author : Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sultana's Dream written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sultana's Dream is a 1905 feminist utopian story written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, a Muslim feminist, writer and social reformer from Bengal. It was published in the same year in Madras based English periodical The Indian Ladies Magazine.It depicts a feminist utopia (called Ladyland) in which women run everything and men are secluded, in a mirror-image of the traditional practice of purdah. The women are aided by science fiction-esque "electrical" technology which enables laborless farming and flying cars; the women scientists have discovered how to trap solar power and control the weather. This results in "a sort of gender-based Planet of the Apes where the roles are reversed and the men are locked away in a technologically advanced future."There, traditional stereotypes such as "Men have bigger brains" and women are "naturally weak" are countered with logic such as "an elephant also has a bigger and heavier brain" and "a lion is stronger than a man" and yet neither of them dominates men. In Ladyland crime is eliminated, since men were considered responsible for all of it. The workday is only two hours long, since men used to waste six hours of each day in smoking. The religion is one of love and truth. Purity is held above all, such that the list of "sacred relations" (mahram) is widely extended.

Author : Mohammad A. Quayum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789386296009
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Feminist Foremother written by Mohammad A. Quayum and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: