Feminist analysis of Rupa Bajwa’s: The sari shop

Abstract

An analysis of the ‘The Sari Shop’ by Rupa Bajwa using Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Theory of women and economics has been attempted. The Researcher has analyzed the different ways and circumstances through which the women protagonists were made to leave productive modes of employment to take up reproductive employment and the benefits offered to them, the consequences and the intermingling of both capitalism and patriarchy to keep those women under subjugation along with the consequences of the rebellion lead by the protagonists which differed according to their class, family and educational background.