A Fragmented Feminism: The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee

"This book is a search for ‘the real Anandibai Joshee’ —— a search in which the readers are invited to participate."

In her short and eventful life, Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree, broke many stereotypes. Literate at a time when it was taboo for a girl to attend school or even ‘pick up a paper’, she was courageous, articulate, and assertive. And ambitious. Fuelled by a desire to improve the healthcare that was available to Indian women at that time, she tra...