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Women and science: A critical venture into “Ladyland” in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s “Sultana’s Dream”

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: 19th century Bengal witnessed a significant churning of new ideas which were equated with progress and modernity. Science was quite dominant in the scenario. Quite naturally, it was the coloniser's tool to assert their supremacy. Gradually the English educated Bengali elites took rigorous efforts to indigenise science. Still, some voices were excluded from this new domain of learning. This paper intends to read Rokeyas's story, “Sultana's Dream” to question the forced marginalization of women with a rigid presumption that science could only remain as a male prerogative.

Source: International Journal of Advanced Academic Studies

DOI: 10.33545/27068919.2025.v7.i1a.1330

Author: Madhumita Roy

Institution: Swami Vivekananda University

Language: English

Topic: Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4406218306