Female Writing and Female Novelists

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Suman Sao

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The woman who is free from the shackles of social evils, ignited by the light of education, moving towards economic self-reliance, which we see today, is behind the history of the struggle of social reformers, politicians and women's agitators. All the social and political movements of women in the western for their respect and equality of rights, their effect was gradually falling on the Indian public psyche.  Many social reformers have contributed from time to time in the development of women's consciousness in the Indian context. Among the social reformers, people were influenced by the ideologies of many thinkers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Keshwachand Sen, Swami Dayanand, Mahatma Gandhi, and Annie Besant. In the first episode of the reform movement, the abolition of the practice of Sati in 1829, which protected the identity of women.  There were other inhuman practices like sati - child marriage, mismatch, prohibition of widow remarriage, polygamy, purdah, etc. The condition of satri was deplorable, and from time to time to rectify and suppress these evils and practices. A successful attempt was made by the reformist movements, and due to these movements the intellectual class-be it western  Or India's attention began to shift towards women's thinking, as a result of which all social, political, cultural and literary discussions started in western society as well as in Indian society and for a long time by the  Patriarchal  society. A constitutional initiative also starts in the face of mental and physical abuse of a living woman.  As a result, the form of a new ideology emerges, which starts giving shelter to the thinking of women's life, and the ideology of women's thinking, women's discussion and women's life comes to the fore. The main basis of this ideology is female writing.

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Sao, S. (2014). Female Writing and Female Novelists. Mind and Society, 3(03-04), 126–133. Retrieved from https://mindandsociety.in/index.php/MAS/article/view/335
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