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- Title
Women's Search for Identity in Marriage Special Reference to Shashi Deshpande's Fiction.
- Authors
Sharma, Usha; Chaudhary, Sushila
- Abstract
Feminists regard marriage as a subtle expression of patriarchal control and the most powerful weapon for female subjugation. With the shift from feudal patriarchy to capitalist bourgeois patriarchy, the nature of social relations has altered and strong individualism, self-interest and self-determination have evolved as the essential human factors in the social relations. Woman too though comparatively in a restricted way, has begun to grow as an individual and the primary center of collision for her becomes the institution of marriage which has, so far, constituted the limits of her space. The self-subsuming, suffering and self-sacrificing woman, with her gender typical traits has begun to thwart the compulsions of endorsing patriarchal gender ideology. The woman who has moved to the center and become an important entity in the social setup is keen to explore new avenues for self-improvement and intellectual gratification and establish her individuality in marriage. This article addresses marriage issues as seen in the work of women writers. The creative women writers re-define the husband-wife equation in their novels. They reveal woman's capacity to assert her own rights and individuality in marriage and become fully aware of her potential as a human being.
- Subjects
MARRIAGE in literature; FEMINISM in literature; PATRIARCHY in literature; FEMININE identity; FEMINISTS; INDIVIDUALITY in literature; DESHPANDE, Shashi
- Publication
Language in India, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 10, p510
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article