Femininity and Sexuality in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Water

Abstract

This research sheds light on the status of the women in society especially on the pitiful life
of the widows. It explores the various aspects of the men’s authority and the women’s subjugation.
The theory of feminism has been used to conduct this research in which the men marginalize
women by various ways. There are various ways by which the men marginalize women and
sexuality is one of them. This research further explores that the women are assaulted sexually but
this assault does not let them suffer only physically rather their lives are shaped by it. Their present
is determined by their sexual past.