Muslim Feminism in Rokeya Shakhawat Hossain’s “Sultana’s Dream”

Prionti Nasir
5 min readFeb 20, 2021
Sultana’s Dream by Chitra Ganesh, 2018

It has been established time and again that Rokeya Shakhawat Hossain, writer and social reformer from Bengal, constructed a feminist utopia in her 1905 book “Sultana’s Dream,” wherein the traditional gender binary is upturned in a display of creative speculation about a social system diametrically opposed to that of British India. But it is equally noteworthy that in the process…

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