• Dr.Sridhar Sharma

The inequities, and imbalance of rights against which feminists protest have existed and continue to exist in all civilizations. The movement seems new as it turned into new phases in subsequent years. Female- Feminine- Feminism- Feminist, encompass the beginning of existence of biological formation and the present radical need of transformation of social order. Newton’s universal law lays down that a body continues to remain at a place until a force or momentum is applied to displace it. Similarly traditionally existing position of woman remains the same until intellectual, social political or economic momentum is precipitated. Feminists are putting intellectual resistance against those males who oppose women’s rights. All Feminist writing is born out of a desire for self-assertion and self-affirmation when a woman writer’s suppressed voice finds its way into her writing, she battles forces that have marginalized her position. As remarked earlier these forces may be intellectual born out of inspiration ideologies, economic, social, political or moral but they have their roots in patriarchal set up. Anita Desai’s Nayantara’s and Shashi Deshpande’s voices resonate the class, cultural racial and psycho-sexual conflicts and gender politics that reduce women into objects of oppression, suppression in the hands of men.

Keywords: Female- Feminine- Feminism- Feminist, Self Existence, Hysteria, Alienation, Self-Assertion, Self-Affirmation

"A Critical Study of the Novels of Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal and Shashi Deshpande in the Light of Feminist Movement", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.3, Issue 5, page no.990-1002, May-2016, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701192.pdf

"A Critical Study of the Novels of Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal and Shashi Deshpande in the Light of Feminist Movement", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.3, Issue 5, page no. pp990-1002, May-2016, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701192.pdf