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@article{190725,
        author = {Chayanika Shukla and Swarali Joshi},
        title = {Reimagining Feminist Utopias: A Reading of Sultana’s Dream through Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s Under Western Eyes.},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {8},
        pages = {2976-2979},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=190725},
        abstract = {Hossain's Sultana's Dream (1905) is important in South Asian feminist and anti-colonial thought. The text depicts a hypothetical feminist society-Ladyland-in which women have scientific, political, and public authority and men are restricted to the domestic sphere. The paper uses Mohanty's essay Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses (1984) to demonstrate how Sultana's Dream provides an alternative view of feminism as an indigenous epistemology that is critical of the application of Western feminism to the Third World. Specifically, Sultana's Dream critiques Mohanty's homogenising image of 'Third World women' by placing emphasis on historical gender relations, as well as the power dynamics of colonialism and the connection between patriarchal power and imperialism. Hossain's utopia is not simply a reversal of gender roles, but rather a radical critique of both patriarchal modernity, colonial science and epistemic dominance. The paper further analyses how Hossain's work may have anticipated several of the core themes articulated by Mohanty in her later work concerning postcolonial feminism.},
        keywords = {Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Sultana’s Dream, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, feminist utopia, postcolonial feminism, Third World women.},
        month = {January},
        }