Cry, the Peacock: A Critical Study from the perspective of Feminism
Abstract
The word Feminism has its origin in the movements of and related to women‟s rights and issues concerning women in society. A central theme of feminist history is the subjugation of woman the society across the culture. The feminist also believe that it is one of the major causes of all psychological imbalances in the man woman relation in the human society. In this regard, Janet Richards remarks:
The essence of Feminism has a strong fundamental case intended to mean only that there are excellent reasons for thinking that woman suffer from systematic social injustice because of their sex, the proposition is to be regarded as constituting feminism. (Richard 3)
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