Plight Of Women Research Articles

Structural and Coherence Analysis Towards The Renunciation

While many researchers have paid attention to Rabindranath Tagore's poems, few have analyzed his short stories, still less on a specific story, like The Renunciation. The fiction critiques the caste system of Hinduism and portrays a unique female character. This paper proposes that structural and coherence analysis can assist in a better appreciation of the story. The disruption of the timeline emphasizes the importance of a series of events occurred in the past. Coherence relations within them are established and analyzed so that the caste system's role as the origin of perpetuating tragedy among Hindus is explicitly revealed. The blank in the timeline along with the nightingale which appears throughout the novel indicates the plight of women in Hindu society. Analyses in this paper provide argumentation for views proposed in previous studies, namely Tagore's firm stance against the caste system and his empathy for suffering women, from a new angle. It also demonstrates the feasibility of linguistic theories appliance to the field of literary criticism.

The Representation of Gender Subalterns in Selected Khalid Hosseini’s Novels

The rights of women in Afghanistan have evolved throughout the years. Currently, the Taliban rule has taken the centre stage and once again women are the most affected gender. But this subjugation was not solely the doing of the Taliban’s rather it was how men treated women and men in Afghanistan. The staunch patriarchal society teaches Afghanistan women from young to live up to men’s expectations of a perfect women and in doing so women accept the myth that men are superior and become submissive to violence thereby causing their own downfall. Hosseini’s novel ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’, highlights the plight and violence towards women ranging from the mother to daughter to granddaughter. The research aims to explore the depiction of the loss of voice of Afghan women and men and how they have fought back their suppressors during the Taliban regime using Gayathri Spivak’s “The Subaltern Theory”. The research will be conducted thematic analysis to explore Gender Subalternity among Afghanistan women and men. The research is hoped to significantly reveal the state and plight of women and men in Afghanistan from a man’s perspective.

From the Cradle to the Grave: A Feminist Stylistic Reading of Select Poems from Juka Jabang’s The Phoenix

This study examines the use of poetic artistry as a contribution to social reformation in Juka Jabang’s The Phoenix to highlight the cultural and social tendencies that contribute to the oppression of women in the Gambian context. It draws attention to the oppression of Gambian women not just as a general societal predisposition, but as a phenomenon deeply rooted in the most fundamental unit of the family. Using Sarah Mills’ model of feminist stylistics, the article aims to explore the use of point of view, agency, metaphor, and transitivity to expose the socio-cultural beliefs and practices that perpetuate the oppression of women in Gambian society. The study adopts a qualitative, linguistic-cum-literary analysis based on four poems purposively selected from the collection on the basis of their thematic preoccupation with the plight of women in a male-dominated society. The analysis also pays attention to the literary devices appropriated by the poet in a bid to poeticize the experience of Gambian women at the hands of an unrelenting male hegemony. The analysis reveals that cultural beliefs in the so-called superiority of the male child, the ostensible impurity of uncircumcised women, the submissiveness of women particularly in marriage, and the professed right to multiple wives as major factors that legitimize the oppression of women in Gambian society.

The Reveal Of Psychic Wholeness In Shobha Des Sultry Days

Abstract: This paper explores how Shobha De's writings make a concerted effort to correct antiquated ideas and replace them with new ones that would not tolerate the denigration of women but would instead elevate them as an independent creature. Women now are starting to declare their independence in real ways. Sultry Days is, thus, an existential fight of a sensitive soul against the repressive dual standards and condescending attitude adopted by the male chauvinistic society, which shapes its regulations indenting to make women always feel subservient to males. 'New Women' who are economically, emotionally, and sexually free to pursue their own goals and interests because to De's portrayal of complex female characters that are both powerful and fragile. Rather of begging for pity or lamenting her plight, Nisha works to carve out a niche for herself within the established order and is even willing to test out the many permutations of a life lived on her own terms. Her idea of liberty is neither political or economic, but rather the liberty to think and behave as one pleases. Besides highlighting women's plight, De's true and admirable goal is to steer mankind toward enlightenment by emphasizing the need of upholding moral principles

The Plight of Women in Paula Hawkins the Girl on the Train

The existing idea were assertively exploring some dissimilar feature which makes a problem of women. The Girl on the Train (2015) was written by Paula Hawkins, were observes around Domestic Violence, Plight of Women, Betrayal and Drug Abuse which derives women suppression. The purpose in the Plight of Women is to indicate the woman struggles by the men controlling in the society. We will confusion out Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train has analyzed the unstable woman’s they were portrayed with problematic life to survive in this society. Paula Hawkins was a psychological thriller writer, through this novel she illustrates the three-woman characters such as Rachel Watson, Megan Hipwell and Anna Watson who perform the major role. In this novel these three women’s life were running parallel because each member has some expectations but it often pushed them to a breaking point by a male which had played and make a dangerous problem to their life by his relationship. Through her narrative, The Girl on the Train it consumes and portrayed the women oppression and describes to expose their identity.

Exploring the Patriarchal Oppression and Predicament of Women: A Radical Feministic Analysis of Mitra Phukan's The Collector's Wife and Arupa Patangia Kalita's Felanee

This Research paper aims to investigate the violence against women and the repercussions of political upheaval as reflected in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector's Wife and Arupa Patangia Kalita’s novel Felanee in the northeastern Indian literature. Women have long endured social injustices based on patriarchy and experience a range of socially imposed discrimination. Society regards women as mere by-products of sentimental domesticity, whereas males dominate and sphere head all the public domain as the rightful inheritors. Women are the worst affected by these geopolitical manoeuvres and are more physiologically affected. Not only do these acts of discrimination jeopardise public safety and tranquility, but they also have a profound impact on the lives of women. The literature of North-East India has several instances of this exploitation. This paper also highlights the radical feminist theory, Mitra Phukan and AP Kalita clearly explained the patriarchal system, which is based on gender roles and is characterized by prioritizing men's domination and interests over women's and reinforced by sexuality and motherhood while valuing female sexuality and fertility in Assam culture.

Reflecting on the Human Condition Through Ahmad Mahmoud's Narratives: An Exploration of Social Sufferings

The domain of fictional literature is a pivotal and impactful realm within the literary landscape. Scholars note that the inception of the modern Iranian narrative began in 1930 with the works of Sadegh Hedayat, marking the evolution of storytelling into a fundamental literary genre that garnered significant prominence. Despite the extensive literature on Mahmoud, focused and explicit discourse on how his narratives mirror societal suffering has been lacking. This study aims to explore the depiction of societal anguish and hardships as portrayed by Mahmoud, offering a comprehensive and novel analysis. It scrutinizes the multifaceted sufferings of the "contemporary human" as depicted in Mahmoud's literature, dissecting themes such as social and political dilemmas, encompassing superstitions, the plight of women, poverty, addiction, imprisonment, exile, colonialism, and warfare. The findings reveal that misguided beliefs and a lack of faith contribute to the prevalence of superstitions, while the agonies of imprisonment and exile are depicted as perpetual. Mahmoud's works profoundly reflect and articulate the impacts of poverty and addiction. Although the tribulations of women are less highlighted, they are more profoundly explored in the context of maternal hardship. Moreover, colonialism and warfare are depicted in a comprehensive and detailed manner in Ahmad Mahmoud's narratives.

Investigation of women's plight in Madhu Kankariya's novel 'Sej Per Sanskrit'

Women have such a close relationship with literature, art and philosophy that it is not possible to imagine civilization in its absence. In the Puranas and Sanskrit epics, women have been portrayed in a very dignified manner. In ancient Indian texts, woman has got a very proud place and she has been given the status of a goddess. Later, with the change in circumstances, the society's attitude towards women also changed. While in the Vedic era, women had a very honorable place, after that the dignity of women continued to be devalued. The woman who was a goddess now became a human being. Gradually the male-dominated society started forgetting its ancient ideals. Now woman has become a mere victim for man. The man continued to enjoy his freedom and the woman remained confined to the confines of taboos.
 Abstract in Hindi Language: साहित्य, कला और दर्शन से स्त्री का इतना घनिष्ठ सम्बन्ध रहा है कि उसके अभाव में सभ्यता की कल्पना संभव नहीं है। पुराणों और संस्कृत महाकाव्यों में स्त्री अत्यन्त गरिमामयी रुप में चित्रित हुई है। प्राचीन भारतीय ग्रन्थों में स्त्री को अत्यन्त गौरवपूर्ण स्थान प्राप्त हुआ है तथा उसे देवी के समान स्थान दिया गया है। आगे चलकर परिस्थितियों में परिवर्तन के साथ स्त्री के प्रति समाज के दृष्टिकोण में भी परिवर्तन आता गया। जहाँ वैदिक युग में स्त्री को अत्यन्त गौरवपूर्ण स्थान मिला था, वहीं उसके बाद स्त्री के गौरव का निरन्तर अवमूल्यन होता रहा। जो स्त्री देवी थी अब वह मानवी बनकर रह गई। धीरे-धीरे पुरुष-प्रधान समाज अपने प्राचीन आदर्शों को भूलने लगा। अब पुरुष के लिए स्त्री मात्र भोग्या रह गई। पुरुष अपनी स्वच्छन्दता का उपभोग करता रहा तथा स्त्री वर्जनाओं की परिधि में क़ैद रही।
 Keywords: अस्मिता, पितृसत्तात्मक समाज, उदारीकरण, सांस्कृतिकि बोध, नियन्ता, आर्थिक नियति।

Analyzing W.B. Yeats Selected Poetry Through Feminist Epistemology: A Reassessment

W.B. Yeats stands out as one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. His symbolic poetry and his political and philosophical ideas are all prominently reflected in his work. During his lifetime, he was deeply influenced by a few remarkable women who made significant contributions to his poetic development and played a pivotal role in shaping his personality. Yeats's poems chosen for this study offer a profound insight into the predicament of women within various socio-cultural and economic contexts. This analysis will explore how Yeats projected female voices through multiple images and symbols in poems such as 'A Prayer for My Daughter,' 'Among School Children,' and 'Leda and the Swan.' While Maud Gonne is widely recognized as a central figure in Yeats's love poems, it's essential to acknowledge that she wasn't the sole woman who influenced the artist's evolution. Others, like Lady Gregory, Olivia Shakespeare, and George Hyde-Lees, the wife of W.B. Yeats, played significant roles in the later phase of his life, particularly in developing his philosophical treatise, "A Vision." In his final poems, Yeats attempted to convey his ultimate understanding of love, emphasizing its perfection in the unbroken relationship between the body and the mind. Works like 'Among School Children,' 'Leda and the Swan,' 'The Second Coming,' 'Sailing to Byzantium,' 'A Man Young and Old,' and many other universally acclaimed poems were inspired by his complex relationships with Maud Gonne and others.

An Analysis of Novel Writing Styles of Ismat Chugtai

The research work focuses on analyzing Ismat Chughtai writing styles. From the analysis it was deduced that Ismat used humor in the plots, and casual communications between the novel characters to strike a sarcasm on the societal malpractices with needed instant eradication. The popularity of Ismat Chughtai’s work could be credited to her plain and simple language and the exact representation of the society especially the plight of women in the society post-independence. Chughtai began her writing in the second wave of feminism and therefore she hampered the progress of patriarchy in society. The research work presents vivid aspects of Chughtai’s writing skill and concludes that Chughtai is nothing but a trailblazer of feminism in independent India.

The Active Cry of the Double Other Nadine Labaki in the Perspective of Postcolonial Feminist Theory

In the Arab world, where the film industry is not well-developed, Lebanese director Nadine Labaki gained the world's attention in 2018 with Capernaum, through which people see the social problems of the Third World and through director Nadine Labaki, people see the double oppression and plight of women in the Third World. As a female director from the third world with female consciousness, Nadine Labaki uses the film as a tool to cry out for the double other actively. As an American scholar from India, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has always focused her attention on the Third World and its women, combining deconstructionism, postcolonialism and feminism to form her own unique postcolonial feminist theory. Nadine Labaki and Spivak have a certain identity overlap- both are Third-World women, both have female consciousness, both have some connection with the Western academic or art world, and both have certain social status and their own achievements. Combining Spivak's postcolonial feminism with a film text analysis, this paper attempts to explore how director Nadine Labaki actively cries out for the double other in her films and draws a conclusion that the double oppression suffered by third-world women is in synergy. The greatest significance and purpose of this theoretically-oriented analysis of film practice is the social dimension, to provide the right to speak for the subalterns, for women, and also to expect to see more marginalized people and things through the medium of film, thus dissolving the authority of centrism.

Plight of Women and Nature in Anita Desai's "The Fire on the Mountain’’

Many research scholars have explored different aspects of Anita Desai’s multifaceted writing. “They include areas such as feminist approach, the philosophical approach and psychological one. Anita Desai is an expert in dealing with the lonely experience of the women characters. In Fire on the Mountain (1977),” her journey moves from adulthood to old age experiences of the protagonist Nanda Kaul. The content investigates how harsh practices connected to patriarchal society work powerfully on degrees of climate and gender. It sends a deft designing of zoological, botanical, atmospheric and color imagery to pass on the representative centrality of the account and the assorted analogies of the more obscure shades of nature and the hazier parts of femaleness. She presents the picture of a suffering woman engrossed with her inward world, her pouting dissatisfaction and the tempest inside; the existential problem of a woman in a male dominated society. She not just features the quiet agonies, pain, desola tion and weakness of women who are tortured by everyday issues, except quietly makes the examination of the circumstance in this way improving it for the perusers to reach to the main driver of the issue. In postcolonial Indian society, women are viewed as simple "objects" and "others." As a main figure of the 20th century Indo-Anglican fiction, Anita Desai holds a dream of feminism that tends to the showdown of women against patriarchal mistreatment. In the vast majority of her novels, working class women in contemporary India endeavor to conquer cultural restrictions forced by male centric society. Desai varies from different women's activists as she underscores singular salvation through self-investigation and inspiration. This Article analyzes the perception of women through Anita Desai’s Novel “The Fire on the Mountain”.

The Study of Paralympic Athlete Malathi Holla’s Authorized Biography: A Different Spirit

The predicament of women with disability is very disheartening. They face triple discrimination because of their disability, social stigma and gender issues. Human rights violation is seen in the denial of sex and reproduction. Their social and economic participation is resisted. The traditional roles of marriage and child bearing are denied. In this context, the study of Paralympic athlete Malathi Holla’s authorised biography “A Different Spirit” gains paramount importance in addressing the challenges of women with special challenges. Malathi Holla narrates her struggle to battle the marginalization which reduce the opportunities for the disabled to contribute productively to the household and the community. Attitudinal barriers as well as physical barriers such as lack of adequate or appropriate transportation, physical inaccessibility, and lack of training for Paralympic athlete resulted in reducing the opportunities in social participation. This paper addresses the trials and tribulations of Malathi Holla which unravel the aspects of socio-cultural construct and the struggle for identity of disabled women athlete. The paper also gives a brief introduction about the field of disability and its relationship with the different models of disability. Disabilities need to be accommodated and accepted. The WHO definition of this concept summarizes the most common understanding of the social model: Disability is not an attribute of an individual, but created by the social environment. Hence the management of the problem requires social action, and it is the collective responsibility of society at large to make the changes necessary for full participation of people with disabilities in all areas of social life. (WHO 2001, 28)

Divulging Women's Plight: A Critical Examination of Gender Exploitation and Suppression in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s this Mournable Body

This article critically examines the portrayal of gender exploitation and suppression in Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel, This Mournable Body. Drawing on the legacy of early African female authors and the works of contemporary African female writers, the study explores the depiction of women in the novel and their experiences, challenges, and injustices. Using a postcolonial feminist approach and employing close reading as a method, the article probes the preconceptions, norms, and narratives within the novel that perpetuate gender inequality. It investigates the portrayal of female characters, their agency and representation, and the intersections of gender with other dimensions of identity. The analysis reveals how women in the novel are subjected to public abuse, including street harassment, public shaming, and victim-blaming and domestic exploitation. It also highlights the intense subjugation, discrimination, and oppression faced by women in the Zimbabwean society depicted in the novel in general. By shedding light on these issues, the research aims to contribute to the promotion of gender equality and social justice, elevate women's voices, challenge patriarchal myths, and advocate for radical transformation within and beyond the literary world. The article employs a systematic approach that combines textual analysis with a postcolonial feminist theoretical framework.

Ecofeminism and Plight of Women in the works of Virginia Woolf and Anita Desai

The abstract is the humble attempt to present the role of women and their plight with respect to the modern novels in general but in the novels of Virginia Woolf and Anita Desai in particular. As we know that Feminism is a rapidly developing ideology and a women's liberation movement that aims to liberate women from their oppression by a male-dominated society for a long time. In its true sense, feminism is a call for greater recognition of women's accomplishments and rights. Feminist literature in English, such as Pride and Prejudice, is certainly not a recent awareness of women's rights. Although it certainly has come into its own in recent times. The assessment and examination of the depiction of women characters without help from anyone else or in relationship with their male partners, and the enthusiasm for female creators. The fact that these are now widely accepted critical practice from a feminist perspective is noteworthy. Both the writers Virginia Woolf and Anita Desai have tried to portray their characters in the way that discusses about the freedom struggle's legacy of gender equality, women's constitutional rights, the emphasis on women's education, and the new awareness among women brought about by electronic media are among the indigenous contributing factors. The Indian woman caught between tradition and modernity, burdened by the past and the present to abandon her aspirations, is the core of aspirations, and feminism in Indian literature is centered on her. In literary terms, it begins a search for one's identity and the self-definition of a woman.

PREDICAMENT OF WOMEN IN THE AGRICULTURE

Agriculture workers are often those who are unable to get regular jobs in the remunerative formal sector on account of their low level of education and skills. This paper tries to bring out the predicament of women in agriculture pinpointing the benefits of women going to agriculture work, women exposure and economic exposure from the job. The researcher applied percentage analysis and Factor analysis to interpret the result. The sample group is rural based, low income group, well experienced but fairly satisfied with the work. The study reveals that the benefits of women going to agriculture work such as empowerment, independence and decision making. It is suggested that proper legal protection like social security and pension will brighten their lives to raise their livelihood

A critical study of tomorrow is ours

Tomorrow is ours protests against the forces of religion, fascism, imperialism and caste prejudices. It throws light on the sad experiences of its author in this antagonistic world. The novel studies the Indian society minutely. It shows the wide difference between the caste Hindus and the untouchables. It focuses on the hatred, detestation, complete isolation the former nurses for the latter. The novel stresses the need for compassion, affection, love and help for the poor and the neglected class. The high drama of the struggle for freedom, of the distress and dejection brought about by the ravages of the World War, the plight of woman in the male dominated society and finally the triumph of persistence are effectively and forcefully spotlighted.

Iran's Cinema of Resistance

Iran's Cinema of Resistance Hanna Khosravi (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Nasrin Sotoudeh in a still from Jafar Panahi's Taxi (International Federation for Human Rights/Flickr) [End Page 6] About halfway through Jafar Panahi's Taxi (2015), the Iranian filmmaker picks up his young niece, Hana, from her elementary school. Hana has just been tasked with producing a film for class, and she is eager to seek her uncle's guidance. Who better to ask than an internationally renowned writer and director? Hana tells Panahi that her school, which is under the jurisdiction of the Islamic regime's so-called morality police, has banned what the government refers to as "sordid realism" in any of the student productions. The legal term for this censored cinematic art form is translated from the Farsi (phonetically anglicized as seeyah namaee), which literally means "representing something darkly." Hana tells Panahi that her teacher instructed the students to "show what is real, but not what is real real. Then [the teacher] said if reality is dark and unpleasant, not to show it. . . . They don't want to show it, but they do it themselves." She pauses, seemingly unaware of the harrowing truth that she has just laid bare, then adds, "Whatever. I don't get it." The scene's striking dialogue uses the neorealist motif of framing social and political inquiries through the innocent, prying eyes of a child. Panahi—a dissident, a political prisoner, an artist—has dedicated his life to an illicit art form. Like many of Iran's dissident filmmakers, Panahi centers much of his work around the stories of women. Consider the film that initiated his ongoing struggle against the country's authoritarian regime: The Circle (2000), which was groundbreaking in its bleak, unvarnished depiction of the government's crushing oppression of women. As Roger Ebert wrote in his review, "The film is profoundly dangerous to the status quo in Iran because it asks us to identify with the plight of women who have done nothing wrong except to be female." Like Taxi, The Circle is about the poetics of the everyday. It is an act of unveiling, revealing how Iranian women pursue their own safety and survival. Following his participation in the 2009 Green Movement, Panahi was arrested and convicted of creating "anti-government propaganda." During a three-month stint in Evin Prison—commonly known as Evin University because of the number of intellectuals, journalists, students, and artists who have been imprisoned there—Panahi went on a hunger strike that garnered attention from filmmakers, artists, and activists around the world. Following his release, the government banned Panahi from directing or releasing films for twenty years. Panahi's 2011 documentary chronicling his life under house arrest, aptly titled This Is Not a Film, was smuggled to the Cannes Film Festival on a flash drive concealed within a birthday cake. Recently the repression of artists has gotten worse. Last May, more than a dozen documentary filmmakers were arrested or had their homes raided when [End Page 7] the ultraconservative administration of President Ebrahim Raisi conducted the most severe crackdown on artistic freedom of expression that Iran had seen in many years. Two months later, Panahi was arrested after going to a prosecutor's office in Tehran to pursue answers regarding the imprisonment of his friend Mohammad Rasoulof, who was arrested in July after posting a statement on social media urging the regime's security forces to lay down their weapons against anti-government protesters in Iran's Khuzestan province. Like Panahi's Taxi, Rasoulof's 2020 film There Is No Evil, which tells four interwoven stories of Iranians whose lives have been affected by the systemic corruption and injustice of the country's capital punishment laws, won the prestigious Golden Bear award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Also like Panahi, Rasoulof was banned from leaving the country and was unable to attend the festival and receive his prize. On July 19, Panahi, too, was sentenced to six years in Evin Prison. Since September, thousands of Iranians have been imprisoned in Evin for participating in the uprising that has convulsed Iran and much of the Kurdistan region...

Time, grief, and hope on film

Time, grief, and hope on film

The pangs of a single mother in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Zikora”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is sprawling the epic journey and emotional storms battered by women in her short story “Zikora”. The Nigerian-American author Adichie does not stick to the details of pregnancy and labour alone but she also an emphasis on single motherhood. This short story deals with the plight of women, maternal mortality, single motherhood, polygamy, societal expectations, and misinformation about the female body, pregnancy, and sexuality. Zikora, the protagonist is a 39-year-old successful lawyer whose boyfriend Kwame abandons her when he finds out she is pregnant. Zikora’s mother comes to help her through labour, and she reflects upon their relationship. Zikora is a thought-provoking story. It explores the unique challenges black mothers face in the U.S., as well as the difficulty of being a working mother.