Feminist consciousness in Indian Sub-continent: A Literary Analysis

Description

Feminism has been a fast emerging and widely talked about concept. Literature has always been a handy tool in exploring gender differences. Gender is basically a construct of society designed to facilitate the smooth functioning of society for validating the advantage of man. As Simon de Beauvoir has emphatically stated ‘one is not born, but rather becomes a women. It is civilization as a whole that produces this creature which is described as feminine’. The traditional deification of womanhood conceals a collective attempt to exploit woman. The subjugation of woman in a patriarchal setup depends largely upon, and also varies according to caste, class and race. Since the woman is economically dependent on man her psyche moves towards subservience. As time changed woman became economically independent but the tendency of subordination in a male dominated society continued without apparent changes.
In this present work I have exposed and highlighted the oppression and exploitation of women through the works of Tehmina Durrani, Taslima and Shashi Deshpande and Anita Desai who have delved or probed deeply into the psychology of women.
I am highly grateful to all my family members and my friends for their profound cooperation, unflinching support, guidance encouragement and broadening my outlook in my work.

About the Author

Dr. Sarita Jain is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Government College, Dudu, Jaipur, Rajasthan. (India). Her teaching experience covers a span of 27 years. Her research papers consisting 45 in number are published in various national, international journals, UGC care listed journals and books. Her papers are also published in Jadila, published from Indonesia, American Research Journal, published from Chicago, USA and Global Net newspaper from Bangladesh. She has attended and presented papers in several national and international Conference and Seminars. She has posted many videos for students related to syllabus on Youtube. She has been the Master Trainer of Global Skills Enhancement Program, a collaborative initiative of Infosys and Commisionerate College Education, Rajasthan. In this capacity she trained many students in English Language Employability Skills. As a result a great number of students received employment in various Multinational Companies. She is also trained by Project Hi-Tech in Teaching English Communicatively, a joint venture of US Embassy and Department of Higher Education, Rajasthan. She is also actively involved in writing poetry on Online Poetry Platforms. She has authored two books and edited Eight books. She was awarded Post Doctorate by Indian Council of Social Science Research New Delhi in 2015. She is credited with one Major and one Minor project awarded by UGC. She is also the Honorary member of Editorial Board of IJBST group of Journals, member of Editorial Board of Kambohwell Publishers Multan, Pakistan and Reviewer member of IJCRT group of Journals, JETIR group of Journals. She is supervising three research scholars. She has been the resource person and Chairperson in many webinars and Seminars. She received Dr.Sarvpalli Radhakrishnan award for education from Arpita Foundation Vrindavan in 2021. She is also the Vice-President of Rajasthan iSPELL Forum. She has received Great Global Award from Arpita Foundation, Vrindavan in April 2022. Her areas of interest include English Language Teaching, poetry writing, Gender Studies, Diaspora Studies and Cultural Studies.

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