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A Fragmented Feminism - The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee (Paperback)
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A Fragmented Feminism - The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee (Paperback)
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"This book is a search for 'the real Anandibai Joshee' -- a search
in which the readers are invited to participate." In her short and
eventful life, Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a
medical degree, broke many stereotypes. Literate at a time when it
was taboo for a girl to attend school or even 'pick up a paper',
she was courageous, articulate, and assertive. And ambitious.
Fuelled by a desire to improve the healthcare that was available to
Indian women at that time, she travelled across the seas to the
United States to study medicine. Meera Kosambi's biography of
Anandibai is more than just a retelling of the life of a woman who
was ahead of her times. Drawing on a host of narratives, Kosambi
recovers Anandibai's many voices, which have been submerged in
history - that of a conflicted feminist, a nationalist, and a
reformer, among others - and her engagement with the world at
large. This volume is a testament to Meera Kosambi's commitment to
social history. When she passed away in 2015, she left an
incomplete manuscript that has painstakingly been put together by
the editors. Drawing on archival research, including a host of
Anandibai's letters, her poems in Marathi, newspaper reports, and
rare photographs, this book will be of immense interest to scholars
and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology, gender, and
South Asian studies.
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