Tag: patriarchy

Indian parents never get tired of training their girl child for adjusting in a whole new family. Girl ‘child’ because the training starts just after she gets done with her primary education. That’s when the official training starts, the earlier stage consists of subtle ways to teaching her how to compromise and not be stubborn, while her brother might be roaming around the streets bullying others! This could be very generalizing and a lot of things have changed now but one thing that hasn’t changed is the difference between the upbringings of a girl child versus a boy child.

'The woman question' revolves around the misconception that, “to be a woman inevitably means to be feminine” and questions whether the ideas associated with femininity are gender neutral or not. Gilman, thus aptly espouses that femininity is a choice not a norm or Hebraist pursuit of all women at large and thus, must not be enforced so.

The lens of enslavement has thus dominated the novel 'Karukku' that happens to be the author's autobiography. Enslavement not only is reflected in the book but in Bama's own life and thus she has made an attempt to instill confidence and motive, especially the Dalit youth to stay strong and fight back with all their will and strength.