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With reference to Bangladesh

Transcript of papers presented in a seminar of the Social scientist and Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust titled India independent: economics, politics, culture held at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti, New Delhi on 22-24 February 2007

"Wazir Jahan engages the reader in absorbing stories of her child-hood to retirement against a backdrop of events in Malaysia; cultural, academic and political, which elucidates the complexities of being a Muslim feminist, in a divisive Asian society. Her narrative demonstrates that each woman can successfully negotiate the boundaries between patriarchy, family and modernity if they believe that being a woman is synonymous to being a feminist - that every institution which obstructs women's path to freedom can be challenged through recognising the power of individualism. Jahan believes that once a woman understands what can work well for her, within the limitations of her own achievements and resources, she should be able to rise above these intimidations of life and actively engage in pursuing her dreams. For Jahan, femininity and feminism are complementary forms of activism which enabled her to gain acceptance and legitimacy for her work with disadvantaged and minority women. Her frank and refreshing confessions of success and failures in her work on women and gender demonstrates confidence, individuality and charisma - a catharsis in the journey to discovering the power of womanhood"--

From ghetto jargon to "women's German" : Bertha Pappenheim and Yiddish -- "Even Palestine is diaspora and galut" : Bertha Pappenheim and Zionism -- The "Jewish mission" and the Jews' mission : combating conversion -- From brothel to Beth Jacob: Bertha Pappenheim on Eastern European Jewish women -- From silent opposition to immeasurable love : Bertha Pappenheim's spiritual journey -- Bertha Pappenheim's biographers -- Freud and Anna O. at coney island : Bertha Pappenheim in art and fiction