Contents – New Woman: Then and Now (Issue 47)

Guest-Editorial
New Woman: Then and Now
Priyanka Chatterjee and Sanchayita Paul Chakraborty
Reading the past times
Vasantasena in Mrcchakatika: A ‘New Woman’ in Sanskrit Drama
Pritha Kundu
‘New Woman’ then: A Study of First Light (2001)
Bikash Chandra Mandal
Reading the middle times
The Chronicle of the Caged Bird: Gender, Quotidian and “New Women” in Post-Partition Literature
Anuparna Mukherjee
Half-Women or Half-Dreams? The Lives and Afterlives of Ismat Chughtai’s ‘New’ Women in India
Translated by Raza Naeem
Filmspeak
Between the ‘home’ and the ‘world’: The ‘New Woman’ in Bollywood
Nandita Dutta
Charulata, Mahanagar, and two epochs of the New Woman in Bengal
Madhubrata Bhattacharyya
Mapping the ‘New Woman’ through the eyes of Cinema and Society
Amarinder Gill
Pondering over Birsa Dasgupta’s Crisscross
Priyanka Chatterjee
Reading times now and beyond
Writing Women, Writing Life: A Study of the ‘New Woman’ in Ranu Uniyal’s Poems
Firoja Parvin
Book Review: Temsula Ao’s On Being a Naga: Essays
Priti Mandal
The Madwoman and the Market: Of ‘Third World’ Literary Feminisms
Debaditya Bhattacharya
The ‘New Woman’ and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
Rubina Thapa
Two stories: Dancing between risk and responsibility
Usha Raman and Sai Amulya
WeSpeak
Writing Woman, Resisting Woman: A conversation with Sarmistha Dutta Gupta
Sanchayita Chakraborty and Priyanka Chatterjee
Lenspeak
Womaniya
Ipsita Deb and Yudhajit Basu
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