Tagore's ideas of the new woman: the making and unmaking of female subjectivity/ Chandrava Chakravarty, Sneha Kar Chaudhuri.

Cover page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; PART I BEYOND ESSENTIALISM; CHAPTER 1 Tagore and Woman; CHAPTER 2 Shantiniketan; PART II NATURE AND SPIRITUALITY; CHAPTER 3 Gender and the Spiritual Quest in Tagore's Poetry; CHAPTER 4 Rabindranath's Chandalika; PART III REALM OF DOMESTICITY; CHAPTER 5 Domestic Space in Tagore's Fiction; CHAPTER 6 Tagore's Docile Daughters; CHAPTER 7 Re-reading Rabindranath Tagore's 'Streer Patra' (The Wife's Letter, 1914) in the Light of Epistolary Culture in Colonial India; PART IV SELFHOOD AND AGENCY; CHAPTER 8 How to Fool Women. CHAPTER 9 The Dichotomies of Body and Mind SpacesCHAPTER 10 'Bimala Is What She Is'; PART V WOMEN IN TRAVEL WRITINGS; CHAPTER 11 The 'Other' Women in Tagore's Travels to Europe; CHAPTER 12 Rabindranath Tagore's Travelogues and the Absent Female Voice; PART VI WOMEN IN OTHER ARTS; CHAPTER 13 Gender in Rabindrasangeet; CHAPTER 14 Breaking the Mould; CHAPTER 15 Women in Tagore's Dance-Dramas; CHAPTER 16 Tagore's New Woman and the Contradictions of Patriarchy; About the Editors and Contributors.