A Space of Her Own - Personal Narratives of Twelve Women - Leela Gulati, Jasodhara Bagchi Audiobook

Written by Leela Gulati, Jasodhara Bagchi
Read by Bhavana Rajendran
Format: M4A
Unabridged

Focusing on relationships between women of different generations in India, this book is comprised of narratives demonstrating how each contributor established her own personhood through engagement with a wider kin group.

Did the women portrayed in the narratives find space for themselves within orthodox structures? Or, were they so constrained by the social roles of the greatest importance to their families - as wives and mothers - that ending these roles meant some kind of death? How did their lives mould those of the narrators of these life histories?

Showing that women need not always be seen as victims, these are stories of women who found strength, success and independence from the inspiring lives of their mothers and grandmothers.

Table of Contents

1. The Wind Beneath My Wings by Nabaneeta Dev Sen
2. A Heritage of Heresy within Tradition by Vina Mazumdar
3. A Daughter of Awadh by Zarina Bhatty
4. A Struggle for Space by Hema Sundaram
5. The Tyranny of Tradition by Leela Gulati
6. Wings Come to Those Who Fly by Maithreyi Krishna Raj
7. The Times that are a-Changing by Priti T. Desai
8. Uneven Earth and Open Sky by Saroja Kamakshi
9. Abode of Colour by Vijaya Mehta
10. Striking New Roots by Sushil Narulla
11. Matriliny within Patriliny by Jasodhara Bagchi
12. Three Generations of Women by Mary Roy

1. Women—India—Biography.
2. Women—India—Social conditions.
3. Sex role—India. I. Gulati, Leela. II. Bagchi, Jasodhar