Feminism In Mulk Raj Anand’s The Old Woman And The Cow
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 11
Abstract
Feminism is based on a high evaluation of women as human beings. It locates changes and reshapes cultural practices that are responsible for the suppression of women. By attempting such an endeavour, feminism focuses on analyzing and examining the suppressed status of women in a socio-political milieu. It aims to get equality of rights, and equal status for women. Feminism regards women as being disadvantaged in relation to men politically, emotionally, culturally, economically, socially and domestically. They want to reverse this position. So, feminism is a politics directed at changing the existing power relations between women and men. Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian novelist and short-story writer. Anand‟s novels present a realistic picture of the poor people in India. The paper analyzes the theme of Feminism in Mulk Raj Anand‟s The Old Woman and the Cow (1960).The novel has another title „Gauri‟. This novel expresses Anand‟s indisputable concern about the sufferings of women. In the author‟s own words, it is an “Offering to the beauty, dignity, and devotion of Indian Women” (Blurb to the orient Paperback edition).
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Dr. M. Manikandan
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