A fragmented feminism : the life and letters of Anandibai Joshee / Meera Kosambi ; edited by Ram Ramaswamy, Madhavi Kolhatkar, Aban Mukherji.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kosambi, Meera, author.

Contributor:

Ramaswamy, Ram, editor.

Kolhatkar, Madhavi Bhaskar, 1950- editor.

Mukherji, Aban, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joshi, Anandi Gopal, 1865-1887.

Joshi, Anandi Gopal.

Women physicians--India.

Women physicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Routledge India, 2019.

Summary:

"This book is a search for the real Anandibai Joshee' ---- a search in which the readers are invited to participate." In her short and eventful life, Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree, broke many stereotypes. Literate at a time when it was taboo for a girl to attend school or even pick up a paper', she was courageous, articulate, and assertive. And ambitious. Fuelled 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. Meera Kosambi's biography of Anandibai is more than just a retelling of the life of a woman who was ahead of her times. Drawing on a host of narratives, Kosambi recovers Anandibai's many voices, which have been submerged in history -- that of a conflicted feminist, a nationalist, and a reformer, among others -- and her engagement with the world at large. This volume is a testament to Meera Kosambi's commitment to social history. When she passed away in 2015, she left an incomplete manuscript that has painstakingly been put together by the editors. Drawing on archival research, including a host of Anandibai's letters, her poems in Marathi, newspaper reports, and rare photographs, this book will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology, gender, and South Asian studies.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of figures

Dedication

Foreword

Introduction

Part I New horizons

1 Early life

2 The 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, early 1884

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

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-00698-0

1-000-00015-X

0-429-26638-3

9780429266386

OCLC:

1114600727