নারীর কোনো দেশ নেই

by Taslima Nasrin

English
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About The Book
This book is a collection of Taslima Nasreen's essays which revolt against the status of woman in this man-made world. Taslima says that there is no place which belong to women and hence they to fight for every inch of ground to get their rightful place.
Her fans laud her acuity of observation, sharpness of presentation and boldness of articulation. They are running fan clubs and blogs in her name even when she is unaware of those. Her critics dislike anything that is Taslima. Some have even called her a misandrist. She denies, but asks, 'Who is Guilty? Men or Patriarchy? You cannot say that men are good but patriarchy is bad.
'Behind the powdered faces of the elite society lies the stark reality where law is violated with impunity and where a woman is not regarded as a human being... she is a thing to be exploited, molested and raped', she argues in one of her essays.
She lambasts those who call themselves secular and pander to the fundamentalist. She exhorts them to rise above narrow interest and to think of the larger goal of the progress of society. In this context, she strongly argues for a uniform civil code in India.
Taslima talks openly about her love life. She has lessons for those who think love to be macho act. She defends homosexuals and challenges the way the patriarchal society looks at this aspect of non-sanctioned form of love.
On how fundamentalism from religion impacts women, she has this to "To" bring in religion within the fold of the state, society, the law and the family is to welcome violence against women, discrimination between man and woman, child marriage for girls, polygamy for men, the law of stoning women to death for supposedly committing adultery, beating women to death for not wearing the burqa, or being disobedient to the husband, the horror of triple talaq, and imprisonment, un

Genres: Nonfiction, Feminism

192 pages, Unknown Binding

First published September 1, 2007

About the author

Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: তসলিমা নাসরিন) is an award-winning Bangladeshi writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. Early in her literary career, she wrote mainly poetry, and published half a dozen collections of poetry between 1982 and 1993, often with female oppression as a theme. She started publishing prose in the early 1990s, and produced three collections of essays and four novels before the publication of her 1993 novel Lajja (Bengali: লজ্জা Lôjja), or Shame. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. Since fleeing Bangladesh in 1994, she has lived in many countries, and lives in United States as of July 2016. Nasrin has written 40 books in Bengali, which includes poetry, essays, novels and autobiography series. Her works have been translated in thirty different languages. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh.'

Reviews

[J.J. Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exiled physician and author Taslima Nasrin rages about social injustice women suffer in Bangladesh and India in these heart-felt essays. Her own experiences as a woman along with volatile news reports feed her argument that women's rights have a long way to go in this region before equality will come. She exposes customs the reader may find shocking and disturbing, revisiting the abuse of women, female infants, and girls at home in many of her articles. This short book is essential reading to understand feminism and woman's rights issues in India.

[Kanika Gupta · Rating 2 out of 5]

I just have two sentences... Poor translation. Repetition of thought.

[Arushi · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very important book, but repetitive ideas. Also, some ideas are too radical and overgeneralised.

[Lipsa Panda · Rating 2 out of 5]

it’s an important message but it’s basically a lot of repetitive ranting. could have really done with some edits