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    "A Study Guide for Begum Rokeya's ""Sultana's Dream"""
    "A Study Guide for Begum Rokeya's ""Sultana's Dream"""
    "A Study Guide for Begum Rokeya's ""Sultana's Dream"""
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    "A Study Guide for Begum Rokeya's ""Sultana's Dream"""

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    "A Study Guide for Begum Rokeya's ""Sultana's Dream"", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateDec 13, 2018
    ISBN9780028666112
    "A Study Guide for Begum Rokeya's ""Sultana's Dream"""

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      "A Study Guide for Begum Rokeya's ""Sultana's Dream""" - Gale

      Short Stories for Students, Volume 48

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      A Study Guide for Begum Rokeya’s Sultana’s Dream

      Begum Rokeya

      1905

      Introduction

      Begum Rokeya's short story Sultana's Dream (1905) describes a feminist utopia called Ladyland, where gender roles are reversed so that the oppressive seclusion of women in Indian Islamic culture (purdah) is replaced by the household imprisonment of men, as women run the business, scientific, and military worlds and are seen to do a considerably better job than the men had. This new situation followed a long period of female university education and a crisis that turned gender relations upside down. The story is an allegory for Rokeya's real-world feminist goals of ending purdah and educating women. Almost all of her large body of writing is in

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