Articles of ‘zenana’

Collective Utopia: Zenana as the public sphere

By Uzma Z. Rizvi
“Sultana’s Dream”, evokes an early twentieth century desire in feminism to designate space for women in the public sphere by relegating men to the private, creating a utopist vision expressed as fantasy. Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain inverted the world as she saw it in 1905 British India, effectively altering the lexical marker [...]