• Ms. Prity

It is known that woman is the creator of mankind and still she is not given a suitable place by her male counterpart. Ever since from the dawn of civilization, Women are struggling to emancipate themselves from male oppression. They are treated as inferior or second person in the male chauvinistic society. They need to examine and explore their inner 'self'. The feminist philosophy deals with the issue of 'self' and the questions like framing of personal identity in relation to society. The issue of self is very prominent in feminism. It's seen that in customary practice, women's selfhood has been systematically subordinated, belittled, diminished and suppressed and at places out rightly denied. Shashi Deshpande and Alice Munro depict in their short stories a very picture of Women across the world. Their protagonists are struggling for their own identity in the male centric world. Women are basically an individual who need to explore their own individual identity for voicing their repressed desires as well as to carve a nitch in the patriarchal set up.This paper analyses the issue of Women's 'self' in relation to the society in the short stories of Alice Munro and Shashi Deshpande.

Civilization, Emancipate, Chauvinistic society, Identity, Patriarchal.

"Issues of Women’s ‘Self’ in Society in the Short Stories of Alice Munro and Shashi Deshpande.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.610-614, August-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907231.pdf

"Issues of Women’s ‘Self’ in Society in the Short Stories of Alice Munro and Shashi Deshpande.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp610-614, August-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907231.pdf