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- Title
When women broke the mould: Protofeminism and gender equality in Vandana Mishra's I, the Salt Doll.
- Authors
Rana, Raju; Banerjee, Sutanuka
- Abstract
This paper focuses on Vandana Mishra's autobiography I, the Salt Doll which was originally published as Mee Mithaachi Baahuli in Marathi in 2014 and translated by Jerry Pinto in 2016. It attempts to analyze the concept of protofeminism by unfolding some significant sociocultural reformations in women's lives in the colonial metropolis of Mumbai. The study explores how a section of women revolted against the rigid gender norms to assert themselves in the public realm. It also concentrates on the miserable plight of widows who adopted the nursing profession. This paper features how male stalwarts, in those days, advocated not only for the upliftment of women through education, but also championed women's involvement in theatres. The study employs narrative analysis and highlights how protofeminism can be useful to unearth Vandana Mishra's mother's strenuous challenge against regressive gender stereotypes surrounding female education and nursing profession while setting an example for women of the next generation to follow.
- Subjects
SOCIAL norms; MOTHERS; NURSING education; GENDER inequality; WOMEN'S education; FEMINISM; WIDOWS
- Publication
Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities & Social Sciences, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 1, p221
- ISSN
2069-1025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5281/zenodo.10968089