Table of contents:

Part I: Beyond Essentialism
1. Tagore and Woman : Some Thoughts / Jasodhara Bagchi
2. Shantiniketan : Education for Girls / Uma Das Gupta
Part II: Nature and Spirituality
3. Gender and the Spiritual Quest in Tagore's Poetry / Mandakranta Bose
4. Rabindranath's "Chandalika" : Woman as Prakriti and Prakriti in Woman / Malini Bhattacharya
Part III: Realm of Domesticity
5. Domestic Space in Tagore's Fiction / Supriya Chaudhuri
6. Tagore's Docile Daughters : Ambivalence in Family Life / Sanjukta Dasgupta
7. Rereading Rabindranath Tagore's Streer Patra (The Wife's Letter, 1914) in the Light of Epistolary Culture in Colonial India / Nandini Bhattacharya
Part IV: Selfhood and Agency
8. How to Fool Women : Tagore's Tales of Seduction / Tirthankar Bose
9. The Dichotomies of Body and Mind Spaces : The Widows in Chokher Bali and Chaturanga / Chandrava Chakravarty
10. "Bimala Is What She Is" : Rereading Bimala and Gender (In)justice in Rabindranath?s The Home and the World / Dipannita Datta
Part V: Women in Travel Writing
11. The "Other" Women in Tagore's Travels to Europe / Jayati Gupta
12. Rabindranath Tagore's Travelogues and the Absent Female Voice / Amrit Sen
Part VI: Women in Other Arts
13. Gender in Rabindrasangeet / Debashish Raychaudhuri
14. Breaking the Mould : Paintings by Rabindranath Tagore / Tapati Gupta
15. Women in Tagore's Dance Dramas / Amita Dutt
16. Tagore's New Woman and the Contradictions of Patriarchy : Adapting Char Adhyay as Elar Char Adhyay / Sneha Kar Chaudhuri About the Editors and Contributors