Feminism in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande: A Critical Analysis

We believe that Women are neither inferior nor superior humanbeings but one half of the human race. We believe that women (and man as well a)should not be straitjacketed into roles that wrap their personalities, but should have options available to them. We can believe that Nature,when conferring its gifts on humans, did not differentiate between male and female,expect for the single purpose of procreation .Women‟s efforts to seek their independence and self-identity started as a revolution, the feminists and suffragists were condemned by the patriarchal society for adulterating the minds of women with the ideaof liberation from their suppressed and encouraging them to eschew the blind subordination to the established traditional dogmas. This paper analysis Shashi Deshpande‟s women characters and their struggle to prove their identity in society.