Feminine Aesthetics of Indian Women Writers

In stock

Free & Quick Delivery Worldwide

This book Feminine Aesthetics of Indian Women Writers is an enquiry into the factors that bind women to their traditional roles. This book delves deep into women's problems and raises questions like why women are unable to be completely free of constraints inspite of the monumental efforts of various reformers from time immemorial.

In this book four women writers and their novels are analysed from the feministic perspective. The writers are Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Shobha De, Arundhati Roy and Bharathi Mukherjee. Indians by birth, three of the writers are immigrants except Shobha De. Irrespective of their life abroad their Indian sensibility is obvious in their portrayals. If not whole the partial presence of Indian feminity is revealed in their works. These findings are presented in five chapters.

The first chapter is the introductory chapter that focuses on feminine aesthetics, feminine aesthetics in literature feminism, waves of feminism, nu-feminist trend, literature and feminism, Indian English fiction different feminist consciousness, biography of the selected authors, comparative analysis and awareness creation.

The second chapter patriarchy deals with various topics related to a society that is male oriented. Culture and patriarchy, pre-vedic partnership prototype emulation in literature, psycho-analysis of patriarchy, patriarchal interpretations of the text, patriarchal power politics, divorce–a social stigma degradation of honour and punishment and picking up the broken pieces of dharma.

The third chapter highlights on wifehood, heroworship cult, exploitation and dehumanization, Indian fiction and wifehood, domestic drudgery, male-centered household emotional incompatiability and scepticism and guilt.

The forth chapter deals with ideas like mohterhood, rearing responsibility maternal revivalism, altrustistic motherhood, reality of torment, a demanding obligation, maternal revivalism and reflection in literature.

The final chapter tries to find ways and means of exorcism of patriarchy, disentangling espousal confinement, emancipation from muddled motherhood and literarians as feminists.

This book is really a contribution to the field of feminism as it dissects various reasons for women's subordination and tries its best to find solutions for them. The innovative idea of the book is that it searches for solutions not outside but within women themselves.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR S Gokilavani

Dr. S. Gokilavani, was a product of Prof. R. Venkataratnam, from the Department of Sociology of madurai Kamaraj University. She was the first rank holder from among the first batch of M.Phil courses in their university from 1977-80. She was a research Officer in the University of Mysore for a short period of five month and later on she had a privilege of joining as the faculty of sociology in the same department where she was a student. After completing her Ph.D in Health Sociology, during her tenure as lecturer in sociology for eight years from 1981-89, she became a reader in the Department of Women's studies, Alagappa University serving till now. She has to her credit many outstanding books published in English and Tamil and also her articles have been published in prestigious journals of India. She has produced nearly 16 M.Phil students in sociology and women's studies, five Ph.D. scholars, now guiding eleven Ph.D. scholars in women's studies. She has presented research papers in the X, XI and XII world Congress of Sociology held at New Delhi, Spain (in person) and Germany (in absentia). She holds professional membership in more than six national and international bodies like the ISA and IAWS. More than 70 research papers have been presented by the Author in various seminars/conferences and workshops.

reviews

0 in total

There are no reviews yet.

Bibliographic information

Title
Feminine Aesthetics of Indian Women Writers
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9788184841053
Length
xv+199p., Illustrations; Appendix; Index; 22cm.
Subjects