Tagore's ideas of the new woman : the making and unmaking of female subjectivity / edited by Chandrava Chakravarty and Sneha Kar Chaudhuri.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Part I: Beyond Essentialism 1. Tagore and Woman : Some Thoughts / Jasodhara Bagchi 2. Shantiniketan : Education for Girls / Uma Das Gupta Part II: Nature and Spirituality 3. Gender and the Spiritual Quest in Tagore's Poetry / Mandakranta Bose 4. Rabindranath's "Chandalika" : Woman as Prakriti and Prakriti in Woman / Malini Bhattacharya Part III: Realm of Domesticity 5. Domestic Space in Tagore's Fiction / Supriya Chaudhuri 6. Tagore's Docile Daughters : Ambivalence in Family Life / Sanjukta Dasgupta 7. Rereading Rabindranath Tagore's Streer Patra (The Wife's Letter, 1914) in the Light of Epistolary Culture in Colonial India / Nandini Bhattacharya Part IV: Selfhood and Agency 8. How to Fool Women : Tagore's Tales of Seduction / Tirthankar Bose 9. The Dichotomies of Body and Mind Spaces : The Widows in Chokher Bali and Chaturanga / Chandrava Chakravarty 10. "Bimala Is What She Is" : Rereading Bimala and Gender (In)justice in Rabindranath?s The Home and the World / Dipannita Datta Part V: Women in Travel Writing 11. The "Other" Women in Tagore's Travels to Europe / Jayati Gupta 12. Rabindranath Tagore's Travelogues and the Absent Female Voice / Amrit Sen Part VI: Women in Other Arts 13. Gender in Rabindrasangeet / Debashish Raychaudhuri 14. Breaking the Mould : Paintings by Rabindranath Tagore / Tapati Gupta 15. Women in Tagore's Dance Dramas / Amita Dutt 16. Tagore's New Woman and the Contradictions of Patriarchy : Adapting Char Adhyay as Elar Char Adhyay / Sneha Kar Chaudhuri About the Editors and Contributors."