Sultana's Dream
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788186211830 (8186211837)
ASIN: 948061
Publish date: March 1st 2005
Publisher: Tara Books
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Science Fiction,
Cultural,
Feminism,
Speculative Fiction,
Asia,
Short Stories,
Dystopia,
Gender,
Fiction
Short interesting early feminist story, I don't believe that one gender is essentially more nurturing than the other but her prescience about certain technology is interesting.
I've read this amazing book a few years ago and could hardly believe that a woman from 1905's Bangladesh, when women were rarely given education, wrote something in English and a really good piece too! But that is the specialty of Begum Rokeya, who was a very gifted personality on her own right... W...