LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 19:11 November 2019
ISSN 1930-2940

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Women in the Marwari Community of Assam:
Negotiating Space

Anindita Das, Research Scholar

Abstract

This paper attempts to explore the nature of space that the women in the Marwari community of Assam endeavour to construct. The community, which is known for its strong adherence to tradition, culture and religion, has a respectable yet crucial place for women. The strict relegation of private and the public spheres in the community is somewhat making it complex for the women to cross the boundary, though a considerable amount of transformation can be observed in their status since their dwelling in the place. The first section of the paper provides a brief overview of the position of women in the community and the latter deals with the argument which seeks to establish the dynamics of space formed by women, substantiating it with the relevant feminist theories.

Keywords: Marwari Women, Marwari Community, Assam, feminism, migration, religion, space, identity, resistance

The gendered spaces have always been the subject of enquiry in feminist studies. The question of space constantly arises in gendered social relations. In feminist discourse “space” has been used as a metaphor to symbolise “female condition,” right from domestic space to larger political space. The notion of space was subverted by the first wave of feminists including Mary Wollstonecraft with the view to expand women’s prospects. Later feminist thinkers such as Virginia Woolf, Simon de Beauvoir of the second wave feminism sensationalised the ‘confinement escape’ imagery. The deconstructive, poststructuralist and postmodernist feminisms of the 1980s and 1990s entirely destabilised the idea of “unified or universal time space” with the thrust on a dynamic progression involve with it. It mainly aimed at working against the chauvinist design of confining women’s periphery and possibilities (Shands 3).

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Anindita Das
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Department of English
Gauhati University
Guwahati: 781014
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