Question

Printing technology gave women a chance to share their feelings with the world outside." Support the statement with any five suitable examples.

Answer 1

Printing technology gave women a chance to share their feelings with the world outside The following are the examples supporting the statement.
(a) Rashundari Devi, a young married girl in a very orthodox household. learnt to read in the secrecy of her kitchen. Later she wrote her autobiography Amar Jiban which was published in 1876. It was the first full length autobiography in Bengali.
(b) Many other women writers, like Kailashhhashini Debi, highlighted experiences of women like their imprisonment at home, ignorance and unjust treatment in their writings.
(c) Tarabai Shinde and Pandita Ramabai narrated the plight of upper cast Hindu women, especially the widows.
(d) Tamil writers expressed the poor status of women.
(e) By the early twentieth century, journals written by women became popular, which highlighted issues like women's education, widowhood and widow-remarriage. Some of them highlighted fashion lessons to women and entertainment through short storing and serialized novels.