ঔপনিবেশিক বাংলায় চিকিৎসাক্ষেত্রে মহিলাদের ভূমিকা : একটি অনুসন্ধান
Abstract:
Feminist literary history has explored the untold stories of women in
different spheres. Colonial Bengal witnessed the rise of a class of women
who were culturally, intellectually nourished and educated and they took
up the challenges posed by the orthodox society and went on to fulfill their
wishes, nevertheless. They began their journey into the world of education
with a warning that if a woman be educated her husband would die. The rest
is history. Womens health and sanitation is a much-neglected factor still
visible in our society. In colonial Bengal the situation was much worse
because of the social stigma of taking women patients to male doctors and
women were also forbidden to study medicine. In the prejudice-stricken
society where the birth of a girl was not welcomed by blowing the conch
shell but with wails, it was quite unthinkable to dream of womens'
education and that also in the field of medicine. In the present paper I
explore the journey of a few selected women in colonial Bengal in the
sphere of medicine and health. I attempt to explore the shift of womens'
journey from home to hospital and their involvement in both private and
public spaces and spheres.
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