Gender Inequality

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To be or not to be a writer has always been a dilemma for a woman at all times in all communities. It is only after the European enlightenment and its consequent followed –the industrial growth and the resultant modernity that more and more women became visible as artists, writers and individuals. Moving from Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own(1929), this movement for the empowerment of women is generally studied under the label –‘feminism’. But the feminism is theorized differently in India than in the west. The condition of women is not same all over the world. With the change in the geographical area, women’s situation also undergoes a change. Set parameters are not sufficient…show more content…
Gender inequality states that women’s social position and their lived experiences of life are not only different but also unequal to men. They are not given any say in the society. Their main work is to do the household chores and to provide favors to their husbands. Some of the famous feminists like Taslima Nasreen have worked a lot to build support for the equalitarian status of…show more content…
But in her “purdah II” she could be called as lioness, fiercest in her silence. In “purdah II” she has expressed her serious humanistic and feministic concerns. “Purdah II” takes off where “purdah I” ends. It is from her inner silenced self that how a woman hears new voices of resistance and protest against the religious orthodoxy that perpetuates their ‘colonization’ in the society. The pages of Koran, instead of inspiring lives, appear as ‘old bones’ to a Muslim woman. Religion itself is male oriented, which provides no solace to her, as it only supports man and suppresses woman. Hence to the woman, the prayer call, ‘allah-u-akbar’ is nothing more than a piercing note emanating from the cold marble of the mosque. Purdah becomes the mean of putting the fear or dread of God into the minds of women
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