Feminine Consciousness

Feminine Consciousness: Glimpsing Indian Perspective attempts to take a holy dip into the cultural Gangotri where almost five century ago a woman named Meera Bai launched her own battle of spiritual emancipation by shedding down her ‘ royal and palatial’ image against the organized and collective powers of sophisticated sociological and feudalistic royal forces pitting her in the pitched-battle to protect their so called family honour. Meera’s battle for her own spiritual autonomy imbibes the igniting power of the modern day women’s cause and here lies the relevance of augmenting the study projecting an Indian woman who blew the conch of women’s rights for achieving her very own Flute-Player of Vrindaban in Sixteenth century long before the western women united and decided to raise voice of acquiring their existence, recognition and empowerment for their voting rights in twentieth century. Furthermore, the book also investigates the works of the female authors Anita Desai (1937- ), Shashi Deshpande (1938- ) and Manju Kapoor (1948- ) who were born ‘during’ or ‘after’ the years when the very first feminine struggle of women’s liberation movement of the west demanding the suffragist rights (right to vote) started and lived to witness the further paradox of degenerations, advancements and achievements ensued in the life of women struggling to exist, survive and grow in twenty first century Indian society. In a nutshell, Feminine Consciousness: Glimpsing Indian Perspective unveils the panorama in which Indian women are painted in their lifelong battle of defiance with difference.