Paper Details

Name: Mithu Dusad
Country: India

Year: 2016
Volume: Volume-3, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 47-51

Human experience, for centuries, has been synonymous with the masculine experience with the result that the collective image of humanity has been one-sided and incomplete. Woman has not been defined as subject in her own right but merely as an entity that concerns man either in his real life or in his fantasy. Systematic subject-deprivation of woman has been a fact as much as in life as in literature. However, in literature different tools have been used to analyse various issues which may be consciously or unconsciously dealt by the authors in their texts; Feminism being one of them. In other words, Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic situation. As a social movement, feminism largely focuses on limiting or eradicating gender inequality and promoting women’s rights, interests, and issues in society. Within academia, feminists focus on documenting gender inequality and changes in the social position and representation of women. Others argue that gender, and even sex is a social construct, and aim at researching the construction of gender and sexuality, and developing alternate models for studying social relations.