Sultana’s Dream: And Selections from the Secluded Ones

Description

Sultana’s Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopia–a tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world.

“The Secluded Ones” is a selection of short sketches, first published in Bengali newspapers, illuminating the cruel and comic realities of life in purdah.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain,Roushan Jahan (Editor),Hanna Papanek (Afterword by)
Published: 01/01/1993
Publisher: Feminist Press
ISBN: 9780935312836
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 0.32″ H x 8.52″ L x 5.50″ W

About the Author
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) was a Bengali Muslim writer and feminist activist who founded the first Muslim girls’ school in Calcutta in 1911.