A Fragmented Feminism: The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee

ISBN-13: 9780367784126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 250 str.

Meera Kosambi; Ram Ramaswamy; Madhavi Kolhatkar

Opis

In her short and eventful life, Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree, broke many stereotypes. Fueled 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.

Spis treści

Foreword. Introduction by Aban Mukherji. Introduction. Part I: New Horizons  1. Early Life  2. An American Connection   3. An Indo-American Dialogue  4. The Bengal Interlude: Calcutta  5. The Bengal Interlude: Serampore   6. ‘Why Do I Go To America?’  Part II: A Passage to America  7. Crossing the Seas  8. Cultural Encounters  9. Entry into Medical College  10. Life in Philadelphia  11. A Family Reunion  12. Completing College  13. Graduation and After Part III: The Return of the Native  14. Homeward Bound   15. The Last Flicker  16. A Death Mourned and Lives Resumed

O autorze

The late Meera Kosambi was a sociologist who retired as Professor and Director, Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She was trained in India, Sweden, and the United States, and specialized in urban studies and women’s studies. Her publications include Gender, Culture and Performance: Marathi Theatre and Cinema before Independence (2015, Routledge); Crossing Thresholds (2007); Women Writing Gender (2012); and Mahatma Gandhi and Prema Kantak (2013).

Ram Ramaswamy recently retired from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, where he taught in the School of Physical Sciences since 1986. He is presently a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi. With a sustained interest in the work of Meera Kosambi, and her father D. D. Kosambi, he has, in addition to the present work, edited two collections of D. D. Kosambi’s essays and papers, Adventures into the Unknown: Essays by D. D. Kosambi (2016) and D. D. Kosambi: Selected Works in Mathematics and Statistics (2016).

Madhavi Kolhatkar retired as Professor in Sanskrit Dictionary Project, Deccan College, Pune, India. She has a PhD in Sanskrit from Pune University and working knowledge of German, Russian, Tibetan, and Japanese. She has attended seminars and conferences in the United States, Japan, and Romania; and was invited to Japan for a joint project undertaken by China and Japan. She has nine books and more than hundred published articles in English, Sanskrit, and Marathi.

Aban Mukherji is a freelance writer and translator. She has a master's degree in History and has co-translated (with Tulsi Vatsal) Karan Gehlo, the first Gujarati novel published in 1866. She has contributed articles to various publications.