Paper Details

Name: Gagneet Pal Kaur
Country: India

Year: 2014
Volume: Volume-1, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 33-37

Feminism is concerned with the issue of the marginalization of women, i.e. with their being relegated to a secondary position. Feminists believe that our culture is a patriarchal culture i.e. the one organized in favour of the interests of men. Critic Toril Moi observes that Feminist literary criticism is not just another “critical approach on a line with a concern for sea-imagery or metaphors of war in medieval poetry”1. In short, feminism represents one of the most important social, economic and aesthetic revolutions of modern times. It is very important component of post-modernist society where people from different classes seek liberty. Feminist criticism, therefore, studies sexual, social and political issues once thought to be "outside" the study of literature. For example, some of the women writers are dissatisfied with the way women are portrayed by men as well as women. The message of the Feminists is not to submit to the patriarchal culture because it does not promote self-reliance, independence and intellect.