The Girl Child in the Life, Lore and Literature of Bengal - Selected Writings of Sibaji Bandyopadhyay

Contemporary children's literature in Bangla celebrates irreverent and deviant boys whose subversive doings critique how they are reared, while the girl child is neglected and marginalised. This book-a compilation of translated works of the author, critic and academic, Sibaji Bandyopadhyay-focuses on gender and childhood in Bengal.