Women have been regarded as subservient to men since time immemorial. Even great thinkers and philosophers have regarded women as inferior to men. Aristotle, the great philosopher believed that femininity is an incomplete version of masculinity. He believed that a woman lacks qualities that are essential to men. He believed that women are defective by nature and incomplete in comparison to men. They are mentally and physically weaker than men and should passively allow men to dominate.Feminist perspectives have acquired a significant place across the country and world, beyond a number of established boundaries irrespective of caste, religion and creed. The study chiefly centres upon exploring female subjugation, psychological tumults, lack of freewill and identity crisis in the male dominated patriarchal society and devaluing traditional feministic virtues of service and submission.Women realized how male writers through the centuries had been stereotyped women. Gradually they began to see that male prejudices have denied woman her right and rightful position in life. As female empowerment alone can enable a woman to shed their dependent and inferiority complexes, so in the writings of many female writers we find a lot of writing which is quite self conscious about gender identity. Many women writers came in front and started retelling the past from their geocentric point of view and thus gave a new voice to patriarchal stereotype invention of telling their own tales.This paper focuses on the secluded life of women, their helpless condition and their transformation on the basis of feminist perspectives. In this research paper we will discuss about the works of mainly two femalenovelists - Attia Hosain and Rama Mehta.
Research Scholar, Department of English, Magadh University, Bodh Gaya
