A Study of Bengali Women in Love, 1850-1930
by
Aparna Bandyopadhyay
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Power is the key element of patriarchy; and the other significant element is love. Traditional control over women’s sexuality was rearticulated in the mid-nineteenth century through the ideology of a non-consensual, non-dissoluble conjugality, based on the wife’s unconditional fidelity and loyalty...