LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:12 December 2017
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Identity Crisis in Women’s Perspective in ManjuKapur’s
Difficult Daughters

T. Anbu


Abstract

The concept of women’s thinking is nothing but the development of a movement which began in the late 1960s as a force, which began as an attempt to describe and interpret the experiences of women’s lives. And we see their problems highlighted in literature especially in the form of novel. It also began as an attack towards male ideas about women as seen in literature. It rejects the ideas of men about women. It denounces the patriarchal society’s control over women. Therefore, feminism is an attempt at removing the small space, and insignificant positions women were given by the male members of society, including male writers.

Keywords: Feminism, women’s predicament, freedom and Socio–Cultural prejudice, male dominance.

Freedom for Women’s Expression of Their Thoughts

Feminism had its inception as early as 1869 when Mary Wollstone Craft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women and later came Virginia Woolf who wrote A Room of one’s own in 1929. The most powerful book that brought into focus the gender bias was Simone de Beauvoir’s The second sex in 1949. In the 1970s Elain Showalter’s essay towards feminist poetics distinguishes literature written by women for women, about woman, as they really are, by calling it Gynocriticism. However, feminism is also considered as a cultural, economic and political movement that thought about the freedom, security and complete equality of women. In Indian writings in English, feminism has been used for evaluating the real picture of the woman.

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T. Anbu M.A.,M.Phil.,B.Ed.,
Department of English
Assistant Professor
Adhiyaman Arts and Science College for Women
Uthangarai 635207
Tamilnadu
India
anbuanandhi@gmail.com

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