Woman is one of the most splendid creations of God. She has been endowed with physical and emotional softness. That softness has become dreadful for her. Taking undue advantage of it, the male dominated society has crushed the feminine values and sentiments with its boot of masculine lust and callousness. Feminism is an intellectual approach to restore the dilapidated status of the eves. It is a social movement which aims at promoting the feminine values which are taking last breath at present. In the literary arena, women novelists like Arundhati Roy, Anita Desai and Shashi Deshpande have endeavoured to explore the female identity in their works and all of them have caught the appearance of woman as a mere material in the patriarchal society
Research Scholar, Dept. of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (U.P.)
