Talk on defining Women's identity

"We ought to call it an identity construct not an identity crisis of women," said Nuzhat Amin, who teaches English at the University of Dhaka, while delivering a theoretical discourse on 'Identity politics and women's fiction: A survey of theory' organised by the BRAC university.

The issue of defining women identity is not a problem, rather a process, which brings various changing social factors together to gives it a shape, she said.

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"In a country like ours, developing social contexts, religion, and patriarchy keep reconstructing the women identity, as other factors do the same in a developed society," Nuzhat said.

In the post-colonial and post-modernism contexts, rebuilding women identity has been a part of social phenomenon, she said.

"Post-colonialism shows that identity is not formed in one particular context, it rather varies with contextual variations," said Prof. Ferdous Azim, who chaired the talk.

There is a need to theorise the tendency of voicing women's identity in different fashions that has occurred in the country over the later half of the 19th century, she said.