A reading list: On Indian Women Writers

Antharjanam, Lalithambika. Cast Me Out if You Will. Trans. Gita Krishnamurthy. Calcutta:  Stree Publications, 1998. Beauvoir, Simone de.  The Second Sex.  Trans. H.M.Parshley.  NY: Bantam and Alfred A. Knopj.inc, 1970. Chakravartee, Moutushi. “Isolation, Involvement and Identity: Indian Women as Autobiographers.” Indian Literature. 167(1995):           139-151. ---. “Gender, Relation and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective.” Feminist Social Thought: A Reader. Ed., Diana Tietjens Meyers. NY: Routledge, 1997. Desai, Neera. “Women’s Studies in India: An Overview.” Women’s Studies in India: Some Perspectives. Bombay: Popular Press, 1986. Dhawan, R.K. Writers of the Indian Diaspora. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2001. Donaldson, Laura. De/colonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender and Empire Building. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1992. Ferguson, Ann. “On Conceiving Motherhood and Sexuality: A Feminist Materialist Approach.” Feminist Social Thought: A Reader. Ed., Diana Tietjens Meyers. NY: Routledge, 1997. Freud, Sigmund.  An Outline of Psychoanalysis. Standard Edition. Vol. 23: (1940): 188. Friedman, Marilyn.  Autonomy, Gender and Politics.  London: OUP, 2003. ---. “Beyond Caring: The De-moralisation of Gender.” Feminist Social Thought: A Reader. Ed., Diana Tietjens Meyers. NY: Routledge, 1997. Greene, Gayle, and Copphelia Kahn. Eds., Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism. London: Routledge, 1986. Gilligan, Carol. “In a Different Voice: Women’s Conceptions of Self and Morality.” Feminist Social Thought: A Reader. Ed., Diana Tietjens Meyers. NY: Routledge, 1997. Harish, Ranjana. Indian Women’s Autobiographies. New Delhi: Arnold, 1993. ---. The Female Footprints. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1996. Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Writing a Woman’s Life. NY: Ballantyne Books, 1988. Iyengar, K.R.Srinivasa.  Indian Writing in English. 1962; 5th edition. New Delhi: Sterling, 1985. Jacobus, Mary.  Ed., Women Writing and Writing about Women.  NY: Barners and Noble, 1979. Jain, Jasbir. Women’s Writing: Text and Context. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 1996. ---. “Gender and Narrative Strategy.” Between Spaces of Silence: Women Creative Writers. Ed., Kamini Dinesh. New Delhi: Sterling, 1994. Jelinek, Estelle C. Ed., Women’s Autobiography: Essays in Criticism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1980. Jopling, David A. Self Knowledge and the Self.  London: Routledge, 2000. Juhasz, Suzanne. “Towards a Theory of Form in Feminist Autobiography: Kate Millet’s Flying and Sita; Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.” Women’s Autobiography: Essays in Criticism.  Ed., Estelle C. Jelinek. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1980.  Kakar, Sudhir. Culture and Psyche: Selected Essays. New Delhi: OUP, 1997. Kaplan, Cora and David Glover. Gender: The New Critical Idiom. London: Routledge, 2000. Meyers, Diana Tietjens. Ed., Feminist Social Thought: A Reader. NY: Routledge, 1997. Miller, Jean Baker. Towards a New Psychology of Women. Boston: New Beacon Press, 1997. Nancy, Friday. My Mother, My Self. Glasgow: Fontana, 1990. Parikh, Indira J and Pulin K. Garg. Indian Women: An Inner Dialogue. New Delhi: Sage, 1989.  Personal Narratives Group Ed., Interpreting Women’s Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Bloomingdale: Indiana UP, 1989. Peterson, Linda H. “Institutionalizing Women’s Autobiography: 19th Century Editors and the Shaping of an Autobiographical Tradition.” The Culture of Autobiography: Construction of Self-Representation. Ed., Folkenflick Robert. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1993. Ramamurthy, K.S.  The Rise of the Indian Novel in English. New Delhi: Sterling, 1987.  Rich, Adrienne. Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution.  NY: Norton, 1976. Rowbotham, Sheila. Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World. England: Penguin, 1973. Ruddick, Sara. “Maternal Thinking.” Feminist Social Thought: A Reader. Ed., Diana Tietjens Meyers. NY: Routledge, 1997. Ruthven K.K. Feminist Literary Studies: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984. Singh, Mohinder. “The Search for Feminine Integrity.” Indian Book Chronicle. Jan. 1981. Sunder Rajan, Rajeshwari. Real and Imagined Women: Gender, Culture and Post-Colonialism. NY: Routledge, 1993. Sanders, Mark A. “Theorizing the Collaborative Self: The Dynamics of Contour and Context in the Dictated Autobiography.” New Literary History. 1994: 25. Tharu Susie and K.Lalitha. Ed., Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Early Twentieth Century. Vol.1. New Delhi: OUP, 1991. ---. Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present Vol. 2. Delhi: OUP, 1993.