Writing Women across Cultures

"Writing Women Across Cultures is a collection of eighteen essays which deal with the myriad aspects of the woman question----how women have been inscribed in culture and myth, how they have written themselves and how they write themselves. Working within comparative frameworks, the essays take up the relationships between gender, culture and narrative strategies and work through the writings of women (and also some men) both from India and the western world. Some of the writers whose work has been considered are: Katherine Mansfield, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Alice Munro, Shashi Deshpande, Krishna Sobti, Githa Hariharan, Aritha van Herk, Dalip Kaur Tiwana, M.K. Indra, Baby Kamble, and Jainendra Kumar. The period ranges from the late nineteenth century to the present, from Bankim Chandra Chatterjee to Meera Syal. Working as they do with traditions in the making (dalit womens autobiographies), womens narratives of recovery, social constructs as projected in cinJain, Jasbir is the author of 'Writing Women across Cultures', published 2002 under ISBN 9788170337355 and ISBN 8170337356.