Assistant Professor, Department of English, Alipurduar College, West Bengal
Online published on 22 September, 2015.
In the Indian context the irrational use of gender has discriminatory effect in understanding women as a social component. Gender has often being used as a condition to judge male female variants in a purely generalized term. The clichéd statement of Beauvoir indicating women as the product of a malic society well accepted though, yet even now there are several running rifts in gender which come to be problematic to the serious researchers. Women in India are prone to suffer multiple slippages and ruptures even before they are exposed to the civilization, or move amid the sexist gaze of the malic society. Their sense of dislocation starts from the very sanctuary where they are born and reared.
