Abstract
Oppression is the name of social injustice. It is perpetuated through social institutions, practices, and norms on the social group by social group. Indian society belongs to the man since a long time ago Indian woman has been given a secondary and inferior position in family and society. She has faced injustice, suppression, oppression, subjugation, and exploitation in a male-dominated Indian society. It has been worst because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This study describes how male domination and woman’s oppression is experienced by an Indian woman and its explanation to what extent women reject male domination represented in The Secret Wish List novel by Preeti Shenoy. The method used in this study is a descriptive qualitative study and uses Derrida’s theory of deconstruction to support the data. The main theory used in this study is Simone de Beauvoir’s theory of Existentialist Feminism. This study shows that the novel deconstructs its portrayal of male domination towards women. So, by destabilizing the binary opposition in the novel, that are males oppose females, the males-females hierarchy are reversed.
Highlights
Patriarchy has been one of the major causes of women's oppression and exploitation
This study has purposed to explain women oppression as the impact of male-dominated culture reflected in Shenoy's The Secret Wish List
Its formal object is the study of Shenoy’s novel concerning binary opposition, meaning, and relations, which depicted the deconstruction showing the oppression of women and male domination experienced by the woman against the patriarchal culture that leads her to the rebellion to show her existence
Summary
Patriarchy has been one of the major causes of women's oppression and exploitation. Male power is exerted directly or indirectly in domestic and social life to constrain the female. Women are required to shoulder all the domestic responsibilities, and they are kept busy with cleaning, cooking, washing, and child-bearing roles They are given just the status of sex partners. The purpose of the rebellion is for telling that she does exist Those things are connected that women are described as "nature", which is characterized by passive, statistical, permissive, and domestic things [3]. Beauvoir tries to put women in their real position as a woman who has a will as evidence of her existence It is no longer The Other, whose existence is only seen as an object of oppression as the "enemy" for men and culture are inseparable, together with makeup life. This study has purposed to explain women oppression as the impact of male-dominated culture reflected in Shenoy's The Secret Wish List
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