• PRIYANKA
• Manisha Yadav

Feminism criticizes the pre-existing social and cultural conditions which debarred women from the pre-dominating social or political pursuits and also the male ideology and culture. In the emergence of the new women writings the concept of modernity is clearly evident. The present paper efforts to make a study of the changing roles of women in Indian society by taking into consideration Manju Kapur’s ‘Difficult Daughters’ who have very skillfully presented the unpleasant situations which are imposed upon them and their struggle against this system that how they come out of their traditional roles as a wife, mother, daughter, sister and acquire various new roles like teacher, social worker and activist, business-woman, corporate personality and so on. Most commonly female characters are fixed by gender specific roles and this is the main reason that their attempts to change this pre-existing position often questioned. In general, female characters are silenced in the face of their suppression under a dominant patriarchal ideology and setup. Even the existence of females always questioned by the system and never consider them as main family member and always consider inferior to men in the family as well as in the society and also deprived from the opportunities to give expression to their feelings.

Patriarchy, feminism, gender roles, liberation, self and identity, new woman.

"A NEW WOMAN IN MANJU KAPUR’S ‘DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.902-904, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901C23.pdf

"A NEW WOMAN IN MANJU KAPUR’S ‘DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp902-904, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901C23.pdf