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INTERROGATING THE MECHANICS OF GENDER AND REPRESENTATION IN FEMINISM--- A POSTFEMINIST ANALYSIS OF AMITAVAGHOSH’STHE HUNGRY TIDE.

    1 Author(s):  ARNAB CHATTERJEE

Vol -  4, Issue- 3 ,         Page(s) : 247 - 252  (2013 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

It is now a more or less known fact that Feminism, both as a critical theory as well as a 'strategy' that 'deconstructs' the inferences of patriarchal society and assumptions has had its stages--- there have been "waves" of Feminist analyses that have interpreted and valued its working principles along certain well-defined lines. From Simone de Beauvior's famous remark that " one is not born, but rather becomes a woman", Feminist analyses has seen a wide array of things that have been dealt with; thus we had different phases or manifestations of Feminist critical theory. However, throughout its long and rather chequered history, Feminist analysis has created certain "binary oppositions" viz. man/woman, logocentric/phallogocentric, and the like. Modern "postfeminists" working within the feminist critical theory say, Nadine Strossen , object to this rigid conceptualization, because they strongly feel that Feminism has more or less succeeded in its avowed aims, so why this tacit hierarchies any more. Moreover, they tend to take a more dynamic approach toward the "woman question", and feel that Feminism has not been successful if it has not yet established an equality between the sexes. They even feel that the very term "Feminism" is misleading, as there is nothing like that now, and that women often are responsible for their own subjugation.

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