ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the women to helps the reader to understand the contested medical world, which became influenced and the new world of domesticity. The new, modern, educated women by simultaneously absorbing new health guidelines and knowledge of hygiene and treatment and also acting as repository of traditional knowledge would create the possibility of facilitation of women's empowermen. The chapter aims to trace the growth of this genre of Bengali writings and analyse the context, content and impact of these writings to highlight certain aspects of medicalization of society in colonial India. Bourgeois domestic discourse and the practices to which it gave rise were incorporated into the civilizing mission of colonialism itself. In nineteenth century India, Calcutta witnessed publication of numerous writings on home and family life. Scholars are generally agreed, domesticity, which essentially meant a set of ideas about the proper ordering of home and family relations, was a secular discourse produced by the nineteenth century European middle classes.
