Feminism in Novel Makaan of Paigham Afaqui - 1301 Words

Femisnism in novel Makaan of Paigham Afaqui Feminist literature, as the name suggests, is based on the principles of feminism, and refers to any literary work that centers on the struggle of a woman for equality, and to be accepted as a human being, before being cast into a gender stereotype. Not all these works follow a direct approach towards this goal of equality. It is only through such media that women believed a change was possible in the way they were perceived in society. Not all feminist literature has been written by women, but also by men who understood women beyond the roles they were expected to fit into, and delved into their psyche to understand their needs and desires. Some works may be fictional, while others may be non†¦show more content†¦Walker Aint I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - Bell Hooks The Adventure of the Black Lady - Aphra Behn Woman in the Nineteenth Century - Margaret Fuller Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua Makaan - Paigham Afaqui Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body - Susan Bordo A Dolls House - Henrik Ibsen Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Like One of the Family - Alice Childress Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi When Everything Changed - Gail Collins The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Though a lot has changed in todays time, there is still an underlying wave of feminism, the presence of which one can sense all over the world. While in the urban setting, women have almost been given their dues, in the rural setting, women are still expected to live by the stereotypes cast by society. Even in the urban setting, though women have achieved a lot more than society has given them credit for, they are still expected to fulfill certain roles and stereotypes that have been the norm for centuries.