LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 1 January 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Feminism in India and Manju Kapur’s Fiction

Sushila Chaudhary, M.A.
Usha Sharma, M.A.

Manju Kapur

Defining Feminism

Feminism is the belief that all people should be treated equally in legal, economic and social arenas- regardless of gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity and other similar pre-dominant identifying traits. Feminism includes the idea that a person’s gender does not define who they are or their worth; that being a woman (or a man) should not put a person at an overall- and especially institutionalized- disadvantage.

Feminism as a social movement sought to redress the imbalance in society by providing women with same rights and opportunities as men, in order to be able to take their rightful place in the world. After the feminist re-awakening in the 1970’s feminist began to realize that equal rights alone cannot free women from sexual and social subordination. Intellectual starvation, economic expression, commercial exploitation, domestic domination, physical abuse, sexual harassment and lack of personal freedom continued to affect the lives of women in spite of laws to the contrary. Hence, Western feminist writers and critics were forced to re-analyze and re-access the socio-cultural setup looking for clues to explain the mechanism of patriarchy that contrived to keep women eternally subjugated.

The Focus of This Paper

The paper “Feminism in India and the Fiction of Manju Kapur’’ involves a basic definition of feminism and what it means in the Indian context. It specifies the direction in which feminism in Indian English fiction has evolved and the kind of feminism Kapur adopts to scrutinize the problems besetting the Indian woman. It discusses why Western theories on feminism cannot be blindly applied to analyze feminist issues in India and how important it is for us to evolve our understanding of feminism to tackle problems unique to the Indian situation.

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Sushila Chaudhary, M.A.
Associate Professor in English
Government P.G. College
Hisar 125001
Haryana
India
asha_saharan@yahoo.co.in

Usha Sharma, M.A.
Associate Professor in English
Government P.G. College
Bhiwani 127201
Haryana
India
ntksharma786@gmail.com
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