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- Title
Are Indian Middle Class Women Sandwiched between Tradition and Modernity?
- Authors
M., Annie Nirmala
- Abstract
This article discusses about the conditions of women sandwiched between tradition and modernity. Women of the middle class are oppressed due to the traditions of the patriarchal society. The mentality of the men is so rigid that they cannot accept women given equal importance in the family and society. The freedom enjoyed by women is so little, as majority of them are subordinated to men right from their birth. The battle of emancipation is undergone only by few women who later have turned out to be successful writers using their pen as their sword to liberate women from the age old suppression to traditional men and society. The modern age has left women confused between tradition and modernity. Their education leads them to independent thinking, for which their family and society become intolerant towards them. They struggle between tradition and modernity. It is their individual struggle with family and society through which they plunge into a dedicated effort to carve an identity for themselves as qualified women with faultless backgrounds. This paper also discusses about some of the works of Indian women writers who have artistically portrayed their characters who are suppressed due to various traditional practices of our country and their plight for freedom from this male dominated society.
- Subjects
MIDDLE class women; OPPRESSION; PATRIARCHY; MODERNITY; WOMEN'S education; INDIC women authors; SOCIAL conditions of women
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 2, p64
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Article