Table of Contents

1. The Male Gaze and `Her Story' 2. Resistance Literature: Feminist Perspectives 3. Resistance and Reconstruction: The Gender Conflict 4. Family and Community 5. Gender and Historical Imagination 6. Defamiliarisation: From Representation to Re-presentations of Gender Select Bibliography

About the Author

"Jayita Sengupta teaches English Literature in South Calcutta Girls College under Calcutta University. She completed her Master of Arts from Calcutta University and M.Phil. and Ph.D. from J.M.I., New Delhi."