Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Women are being held back in almost every part of life, from gender inequality to discrimination at home. They are traditionally constrained to the home as daughters, wives, and mothers in most societies. They often find themselves second only to men in the hierarchy of patronage under a patriarchal structure. This under-representation is due to historical, cultural and economic factors which restrict women's access to education, financial independence and social mobility. The patriarchal system upholds the belief that women are naturally gifted in nurturing roles.Women frequently passively accept their subordinate status in patriarchal families due to social conditioning, cultural norms, and a fear of rejection. This acceptance is deeply rooted, because generations of women have been taught to put family honour and obedience above personal ambition. In modern Indian literature, Manju Kapur's Home stands out for its perceptive examination of the roles that women play in conventional family and social structures. The story follows Nisha, a protagonist whose life represents the tensions that arise in a joint family structure and whose path embodies the larger conflict between traditional values and modernity. The novel's theme is woven from the strands of individual fulfillment, familial responsibilities, and personal autonomy in a world where traditional gender roles still influence day-to-day life. Manju Kapur has brought to light a number of social ills, such as discrimination based on caste, classism, superstitious beliefs, the prohibition of female education, child sex abuse, etc. I will pay ,in the present research paper, particular attention to the difficulties that women encounter in a patriarchal society.
Author: Dr.Suporna Mitra
Institution: Savitribai Phule Pune University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411220552