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“Knowledge Is Power, Power Is Also Knowledge”: Revisiting Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's “Sultana's Dream”
Abstract
The chapter explores the complex intersection of gender, knowledge, and power as manifested in Rokeya Sakhwat Hossain's feminist text Sultana's Dream. In this story, she imagines a world of women beyond the patriarchy. She reverses the stereotypical process of gender roles and reclaims women's space in socio-cultural and political domination. There is an idea that subverting the performative role of gender will lead women to autonomy and power. For her, scientific education and sustainable use of nature are the abundant sources of alternative power. The tactical use of women's scientific knowledge displeases and controls the superior authoritative forces of patriarchy. This decisive role of science is an alternative mode of organizing society and the exceptional development of the particular category of alternative apparatus. The chapter delineates Kate Millett's notion of the reversal of gender roles by mediating Michel Foucault's concepts of power and knowledge.
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