In this book, Vijay Sheshadri looks at the way Margaret Laurence and Shashi Deshpande indict the phallocentric methods of fe/male objectification and also highlights the manner in which these two novelists present women characters who in various ways defy such methods of male objectification. By comparing writers from different countries, cultures and traditions, the book points that there exists a cross-gender representativeness, providing insights into ...
