In Search of Territory: Women’s Existential Traverse Through Varied Routes

Abstract

All thoughts regarding emancipation whether subtle or overt are political, hence in this sense, women of India were not apolitical when they thought of a secure space for the expression of women’s subjectivity which asserts their identity and facilitates them to communicate because, it is well known now that the structural inequality has all along been existing in patriarchy and continues to be a dominant category even in an era of “advanced civilization” preventing women’s expression sometimes using violence and at other times by denying their subjectivity altogether. While tracing the path traversed by these women in search of their own existence we may consider it interesting to find in this tradition how they could use this space as a potential to both as resistance and as an expression of their subjectivity against the dominant culture and still continue to do so.