WOMANLY PERCEPTIVENESS IN ANITA DESAI’S CRY THE PEACOCK

Abstract

Feminism emerges as a concept that is based on critical analysis of male privilege and
woman’s subordination within any given society. It opposes woman’s subordination to men
in the family and the society. It is a global revolutionary ideology that is political because it is
concerned with the question of power. A feminist is one who is awakened and conscious
about woman’s life and problems. The concept of woman is of vital importance in the
formation of feminist theory. Themes explored in feminism and feminist theory consist of
patriarchy, sexual objectification and oppression. In literary theory feminism means
challenging the patriarchal cannons. Feminist theory studies a structural inequality of women
by systematic social injustice.