Published Online:December 2024
Product Name:The IUP Journal of English Studies
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJES021224
Author Name:Debabrata Sardar
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Subject/Domain:Arts and Humanities
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Pages:15-23
The female body is less biological and more cultural. In collective perception, it exists through several forms of abstractions. Even the way women themselves make sense of their bodies remains thoroughly informed by their understandings of such abstractions. Women cease to exist if they refuse to appropriate these abstract qualities. But how does it happen? Why does the biological location of women—their bodies—become a source of their oppression? This paper investigates the answers to these fundamental questions with reference to selected Indian novels in English.
The female body has always been a cultural phenomenon responsible for both their subjectivity and subjection. Naturally, the way an individual woman makes sense of her body determines her ontological position.