Feminism in Nayantara Sahgal’s Storm in Chandigarh

Abstract

Abstract

Feminism is a range of movements and ideologies aimed at establishing, defending and achieving equal civil, political, economic, personal and social rights and equal opportunities regarding status, privilege and power for women. Feminism includes resistance to any kind of exploitation the women experience because of their sex. The feminist movements are considered under three periods or waves ?the first wave feminism focused on women’s suffrage, while the second on every area of women’s experiences including family, sexuality and work and third’s goal includes equal rights not only for women but for all people. Now women claim separate identity on all fronts. The focus has been shifted from women’s emancipation to empowerment. The women’s movement in India comes within the socio-economic and cultural fabric of the patriarchal society. Now they are attempting to establish a new identity with their changing gender roles.