“Gender attributes are performative rather than expressive”: An
understanding of Feminism
Abstract
Feminism has altered predominant perspectives in a wide range of areas
within western society, ranging from culture to law. Patriarchy, if
considered a mutating drug resisting virus the Feminism is an ‘antidote’
to it. Literature as De Bonald considers “is an expression of
society”. Feminism, if considered a hermeneutical device which is a
methodology for interpreting texts, it has always focused on the vast
spectrum of marginalization in India, which is perhaps so intricately
designed, that when it gets unfold; its spectrum reflects all those
wailing lives which gets veiled by this intricate design of culture,
power and aesthetics. Literary depiction of the marginalized lives has
gain immense significance at present. Feminism assisted in diagnosing
the pathologies of culture which if described as a complex social
apparatus dices the norms and regulations and is a stratified concept
with hues that light up the disillusionment and dissent. Hence my paper
would trace how from the history Feminism gradually became a ‘play’!