What happens when society seeks to exclude the female body on which it depends? This paradoxical situation is repeatedly staged in Mahasweta Devi’s Breast Stories. Translated into English by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Breast Stories is a collection of three seminal stories by Mahasweta Devi. It includes “Draupadi”, “Breast-giver”, and “Behind the Bodice: Choli ke Pichhe”. These stories interrogate the politics of the female body under the conditions of social oppression. They foreground the...