Real and Imagined Women : Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism

Name: Real and Imagined Women:Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism
ISBN: 9780203359662

doi:10.4324/9780203359662

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ABSTRACT

An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of `reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensationalised humanist image of the `third world woman' as victim.

Real and Imagined Women

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|25 pages

The Subject Of Sati

chapter 2|24 pages

Representing Sati

chapter 3|19 pages

Life After Rape

chapter 4|20 pages

The Name of the Husband

chapter 5|26 pages

Gender, Leadership and Representation

chapter 6|18 pages

Real and Imagined Women