• Daljeet Singh
• Dilshad Kaur

Presentation/representation of women in literature and media has given rise to many stereotypes. These stereotypes have serious repercussions on the actual life of women who are everyday fighting a battle for recognition and acknowledgement of their humanity and difference. Man still being at the helm of affairs dictates terms and present women in the mould which suits him and which caters to the egoistic demands of patriarchy. Conscious women have always been vigilant against serious implications of such warped (re)presentations. Their alertness has taken varied forms of protest and resultant denouncement of these insidious stereotypes. Women’s writing is one such attempt at bringing the things in order which the power intoxicated men have messed up to suit their interests. Women writers try to rectify the mistakes of literary history which too had callously overlooked and grossly misunderstood women and had therefore not allowed the voices of women writers to enter the sacred pantheon of their (patriarchal) canon. Asserting their difference these women writers have constantly been trying to rescue the image of woman from the clutches of man and his ideology. Instead of focusing on how women are different from men, women writers’ rather endeavour to drive home the point how women differ from what men think they are.

Women writing, gynocriticism, representation, gender, stereotype

"Pain and Resilience: Understanding Women Writers through Joan Riley", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.1450-1455, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREL06219.pdf

"Pain and Resilience: Understanding Women Writers through Joan Riley", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp1450-1455, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREL06219.pdf