Vol. 9, Issue 3, Part C (2023)

Abstract
Feminism is a recent theory to influence literature both in the West and East by portraying women and their problems. The feminism is against the patriarchal society which stands on the way of the women’s freedom. The women do not stand on equal footing with men in very sphere of life. So, they struggled throughout all the ages for their freedom. But The Second Sex by Simon de Behavior brought a worldwide revolution to fight against such socio-economic inequality. The literature picked it up and portrayed how the women are treated in a patriarchal society where they tortured both physically and mentally. Anita Desai’s fictions belong to such categories of texts which portrayed how the women suffer due to lack of freedom.