International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 3

"Writing the Rape: A Critical Study of Rape Narratives through Feminist and Dalit Lens"

  • Author:
  • U S Saranya
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 28 to 35

Assistant Professor, School of Advanced Sciences and Languages, V I T Bhopal University

Online published on 25 June, 2019.

Abstract

The historians and the nationalistsin India are of the view that women are under ever pressure and subjected to experience the domestic violence. They also claim that India is predominantly a male dominated country and claim that the Indian women are in need of the liberty and freedom and equal opportunities. Dalit women and other women are always being humiliated in body and mind through sexual harassment, domestic violence and rape. For all the men out therewoman is not written in braille. You don't have to touch her to know her. In fact the perspectives and the ideologue that the nationalists have are of the continental in origin and immigrant in nature and practice.

The proposition of the paper is to analyze the issue of Rape from socio-cultural point of view. It also deals why and how the understanding the concept of Rape is different from Indian feminists point of view to that of Dalit and subaltern feminists with reference to the select Dalit and Subaltern narratives.

Keywords

Feminism, Rape, Dalit, Subaltern, Caste, Indian Feminism, Western Feminism, socio cultural aspect