Through a Changing Feminist Lens: Three Biographies of Anandibai Joshi

The problem for any biographer of Dr Anandibai Joshi, the first woman degree holder in western medicine, is, how to cast the relationship between mentor-husband Gopalrao Joshi and Anandibai, i e, how do we give Gopalrao due credit for whatever he did without reducing Anandi into entirely being his p...

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Veröffentlicht in:Economic and Political Weekly. - Sameeksha Trust, 1966. - 49(2014), 33, Seite 37-40
1. Verfasser: GURJARPADHYE, PRACHI (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2014
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Economic and Political Weekly
Schlagworte:Behavioral sciences Economics Social sciences Political science Information science
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Zusammenfassung:The problem for any biographer of Dr Anandibai Joshi, the first woman degree holder in western medicine, is, how to cast the relationship between mentor-husband Gopalrao Joshi and Anandibai, i e, how do we give Gopalrao due credit for whatever he did without reducing Anandi into entirely being his product. This article compares three biographies of Anandibai and argues that her persona, especially her relationship with Gopalrao, needs to be revisited by postcolonial feminist scholarship in order to unravel the tremendous intellectual and imaginative adventure that Anandibai's journey was and to explore the thoroughgoing radicalism that informed the shaping of Anandibai's life.
ISSN:23498846