Feminist concern of Girish Karnad Novel: Nagamandala

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-44
Author(s):  
Ruchi Saxena ◽  
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Dr. Anshu Raj Purohit ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Child Marriage ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Shashi Deshpande ◽  
Male Feminist

This present paper attempts to critically analyse the selected novel of Girish Karnad _Nagamandala. Girish Karnad, as a dramatist, is free from any such feminist tags and like Shashi Deshpande, an Indian woman novelist, treats ‘woman as a woman’ and as ‘a human being’. As a male feminist, he has treated the feminist issues like child marriage, loveless marriage, exploitation of wife in the hands of husband, double standards of society and law operating against her in the society etc. It also expresses the hollowness and injustice of patriarchal society. He insists that it is not patriarchy but matriarchy which is essential for society. Thus, the refined sensibilities of woman like love, sex, compassion and tolerance make her unsurpassable in the society. The pride of woman also finds a space in his play Naga Mandala.

scholarly journals Feministic Images of Women in Shashi Deshpande's Fiction Roots and Shadows and The Binding Vine

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Shilpa Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Women Characters ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Shashi Deshpande ◽  
Images Of Women

Shashi Deshpande is the most prolific writer among her contemporaries. Her writing reflects her image of middle class Indian woman. In most of her novels her protagonists are modern, well‑educated and financially independent women. The main theme of her novels are problems of middle class women who were trapped between tradition and modernity. The protagonists always try to maintain their marriage in spite of the fact that they are mentally and physically tortured by their husbands. The objective of this study is to show the feminist perspective of Shashi Deshpande's women characters in her two novels Roots and Shadows and The Binding Vine. This study also aim to figure out how the women characters of these novels assert themselves.

scholarly journals The Theme of Loss and Grief in Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Vanitha Devaraju
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Loss And Grief ◽  
Psychology Of Women ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Shashi Deshpande

A writer throws light on the darkest aspects of life and motivates the reader by projecting the human realities through their fictional characters. Success and failure are the part of impermanent life. Have we ever tried to analyze the struggles and challenges behind one's failure and success? In a patriarchal society, women have to undergo multiple struggles and challenges and require an indomitable spirit to quench her thirst of success. It is highly important to analyze the psychology of women in her loses and happiness. As a woman novelist, Shashi Deshpande novels mostly centered on Women's lives and their challenges to survive in the Indian society. The female protagonist in Small Remedies has gone through several loses and grief beyond her success. Other women characters also built their strong identity after crossing all the barriers and awakening the collective consciousness.

MINOR MARRIAGES AND KHIYĀR AL-BULŪGH IN OTTOMAN PALESTINE: A NOTE ON WOMEN'S STRATEGIES IN A PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Yazbak
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Muslim Society ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The Right ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Do So

AbstractSharī'a court records (sijills) are legal documents that summarize discussions that took place in the courtroom. They also contain a wealth of detail on various aspects of Muslim society. Drawing on different sijills from nineteenth-century Palestine and fatwās of Khayr al-Dīn al-Ramlī, I examine the phenomenon of child marriage and the practice of khiyār al-bulūgh, literally "option of puberty". If a natural guardian contracts a marriage for a minor child, male or female, the child may not subsequently have the contract annulled. Whereas a boy enjoys the right to divorce his wife through the mechanism of talāq as soon as he reaches his majority, a girl who reaches her majority must approach the court if she wants to dissolve a marriage (faskh), and she may do so only if she was married while a minor by a non-natural guardian. In this case, she may exercise her right of khiyār al-bulūgh immediately upon reaching her legal majority, i.e., at the onset of her first menstruation. But she must make a public declaration of the occurrence of menstruation so that the persons who hear the declaration may serve as witnesses on her behalf.

scholarly journals Female Psyche and Search for Self-hood in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-63
Author(s):  
Padma Joseph ◽  
Dr Krishnaraj
Keyword(s):  
Male Domination ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Search For Self ◽  
The World ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Shashi Deshpande ◽  
Almost All

The place of women in society has differed from culture to culture and from age to age, yet one fact common to almost all societies is that woman has never been considered the equal of men. Her status largely depends on the simple biological fact that she is the bearer of children. In this way her sphere is usually restricted to her familial role. Immemorial woman has been the victim of male domination and oppression and treated like a beast of burden of burden and an object for pleasure. Man has always looked down upon her as the weaker sex, as his property, servile to him. Different religions of the world have given sanction to the female’s subjection to the male members of society, thus perpetuating the women; wives, submit yourselves to your husband’s to the lord woman as regarded subordinate to man because it is believed that she was made out of man. This present paper attempts to analysis researcher’s chosen novel The Dark Holds No Terrors by Shashi Deshpande. Her novels appeared as a voice against the tormented women aimed to create a mass awareness against the suppression and the repression of the corrupted patriarchal society. She focus in her fiction is essentially on women’s role in society.

New Ideal Womanhood

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-156
Author(s):  
Susmita Roye
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ideal Womanhood ◽  
The New Woman

In discussing the divine figure of Bharatmata (Mother India), it is impossible to overlook her human prototype, Bharatiya Nari—the ‘new’ Indian woman. This latter figure did not come into existence overnight. Instead, its emergence by the end of the nineteenth century was the culmination of innumerable social reform debates, discussions, and legislations on women’s issues like sati, widow rehabilitation, child marriage, and female education over the past few decades. Women writers often used their fiction to draw attention to the diverse problems that their fellow women faced, and in doing so, these authors consciously participated in the ongoing social discussion that moulded the ‘new’ woman ideal. Consequently, it is often in their writings that the evolution and sculpting of the Bharatiya Nari are best documented. This chapter discusses works by Ramabai Trikannad, Nalini Turkhud, and K.S. (full name unknown).

Challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in rural India

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atul Arun Pathak ◽  
Sanjeev Varshney
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Rural India ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Rural Location ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Rural Context

Malavika Sharma, an Indian woman rural entrepreneur, founded Avika, a venture which produced traditional, hand-embroidered Indian garments. Avika grew rapidly and now provides employment to over 700 rural women. This case highlights various challenges that an entrepreneurial venture run by a woman, in a rural location within a traditional patriarchal society such as India, faces. The case also helps understand the inevitable inter-twining of business and social issues, given the rural context.

scholarly journals The Role Of Ideological State Apparatuses In Identity Formation In Qaisra Shahraz’s: The Holy Woman

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Amna Saeed ◽  
Azher Khan
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Louis Althusser ◽  
Natural Laws ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Status

This research aims to critically analyze the role of Ideological State Apparatuses, defined by Louis Althusser, in identity formation of Zari Bano, the protagonist in the novel “The Holy Woman” written by Qaisra Shahraz. According to Althusser, ideology functions through ISAs which change individuals to ideological subjects within capitalist society. This study focuses on the influences of the cultural ISA, the political ISA and the family ISA on the character of Zari Bano. The study also analyzes the moments of ‘interpellation’ by critically evaluating the text of the novel and reveals how the characters act in certain ways and blindly accept certain beliefs and ideologies. The findings of the research indicate that the ISAs play a crucial role in formation of individuals’ identities and the socio-cultural / political ideologies set double standards in a patriarchal society, particularly for women, which are difficult to challenge. The research is significant as it deals with the issue of passive discursive ideologies at work in setting up different norms and values in a patriarchal society and how these are given the status of natural laws of life to be followed blindly by the social subjects. This research study is limited to the analysis of interpellation and ISAs only on Zari Bano and the characters closely related to her within the first part of the novel. The study is replicable and may draw attention of the scholars to investigate the role of ISAs other than those in this paper and explain action and reactions of the characters involved.

scholarly journals Chetan Bhagat: Recent Readings: Mental conflicts of Indian women in One Indian Girl

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-53
Author(s):  
Ms. Madhu
Keyword(s):  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Social Stereotypes ◽  
Successful Career ◽  
Indian Girl ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Feminist Ideology ◽  
Social Reputation ◽  
Exceptional Elements

This chapter is written to have a look at Chetan Bhagat’s novel One Indian Girl from cerebral angle to acknowledge a deviation in Indian Women’s demeanor and behaviour. Indian women’s mind is full of conflicts and confusion. They have to deal with social stereotypes.  Our society believes that girls can make a successful career either or a successful home. Can’t do both together. What an astonishment! We give wings to our daughters but then she is told that she has to build a nest. So she has to forget to fly. Chetan Bhagat’s novel One Indian Girl offers a female’s anima – her goals and inclination in her thoughts and geared up to flare up and ensue at even the slightest pierce. Radhika Mehta cogitates a maiden who is a sturdy backer of feminist ideology however she has to confront the pre-determined norms of Indian society that have been set below patriarchal society because of which she has to go through numerous sorts of torments and distress. This narrative is generally about Radhika, the proponent, unveiling the exceptional elements of a modern-day Indian woman. Radhika’s social reputation influences society to a great extent that she turns into a vulnerable target of many known and unknown conditions which vexed her unfulfilled objectives of not getting bodily love and appreciation. Radhika’s unfulfilled dreams take her foundation within side the discrimination meted to her in her formative years and youth. It is a first-character narrative through the protagonist whose internal voice (named ‘Mini-me’) constantly expresses her internal feelings and the mental conflicts occurring in her thoughts.

scholarly journals Photography as a Reflection of the Photographer’s Pain in Time Stands Still

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhawy Abdulaziz Almeshaal
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
War Zones

The paper at hand attempts to interpret a female war journalist’s, the protagonist’s, Sarah Goodwin’s, decision to return to war zones after surviving a near-death experience in Time Stands Still, by Donald Margulies, (2010). The play starts with the protagonist’s strong assertion that she is endangering her life working in different war zones just to help the victims of wars by showing the world pictures of their suffering. After surviving a deadly road-bomb accident, Sarah Goodwin decided to settle down at home and never return to dangerous zones. However, after six months of recovery, this female war journalist decided to return to war zones. The present study finds it intriguing to speculate on Sarah Goodwin’s determination to return to such zones at such a time of her life. Through consulting some aspects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and different aspects of Jacques Lacan’s words on photography, lack, and absence, the present study concludes that the protagonist’s desire to go back to war zones does not just help show the world pictures of wars victims’ suffering, but it helps the protagonist construct her own identity. Photography/war journalism becomes a medium through which Sarah Goodwin asserts her identity as a human being as she cannot fulfill her feminine role as a nurturer in a patriarchal society. The audience realizes that through photography, the protagonist projects her sense of lack and pain and attempts to attain some sense of wholeness.

scholarly journals Photography as a Reflection of the Photographer’s Pain in Time Stands Still

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Madhawy Abdulaziz Almeshaal
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
War Zones

The paper at hand attempts to interpret a female war journalist’s, the protagonist’s, Sarah Goodwin’s, decision to return to war zones after surviving a near-death experience in Time Stands Still, by Donald Margulies, (2010). The play starts with the protagonist’s strong assertion that she is endangering her life working in different war zones just to help the victims of wars by showing the world pictures of their suffering. After surviving a deadly road-bomb accident, Sarah Goodwin decided to settle down at home and never return to dangerous zones. However, after six months of recovery, this female war journalist decided to return to war zones. The present study finds it intriguing to speculate on Sarah Goodwin’s determination to return to such zones at such a time of her life. Through consulting some aspects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and different aspects of Jacques Lacan’s words on photography, lack, and absence, the present study concludes that the protagonist’s desire to go back to war zones does not just help show the world pictures of wars victims’ suffering, but it helps the protagonist construct her own identity. Photography/war journalism becomes a medium through which Sarah Goodwin asserts her identity as a human being as she cannot fulfill her feminine role as a nurturer in a patriarchal society. The audience realizes that through photography, the protagonist projects her sense of lack and pain and attempts to attain some sense of wholeness.

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