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Afterwordbook chapter 1992 • Roy, Manisha
Bengali • Asia > South Asia
This document discusses the changing roles of women in Bengali society from traditional times to the late 1960s. Some of the key factors bringing about these changes are the opening up of education and the professions to women and the effects of west...Bengali womenBook 1975 • Roy, Manisha
Bengali • Asia > South Asia
This is a study of upper and upper middle-class urbanized Hindu Bengali women who share similar religious, educational and economic backgrounds. The author, herself a Bengali, discusses childhood and adolescence in the natal family and the romantic f...