The Liberation of Woman in the Works of Shashi Deshpande

Authors

  • Dr. Astha Gupta Assistant Professor Dept. of English, GJU&ST University, Hisar

Keywords:

Liberation of Women, autonomy, Shashideshpande, feminists struggle, philosophers, research articles

Abstract

This research paper related to the Liberation of Women. The data related to this paper is primary. The source of data is mainly books, research articles, Newspapers and research paper. This research articles discussed about the liberation of women and working of women in all filed of life. Freedom is one's birthright. Every person is bom to be free and likes to live freely. But the problem is how to define the term "liberation." "Liberation" in its dictionary meaning means "having the freedom to do what one wants."' The philosophers have debated on the meaning of freedom for over two millennia, and just about every major philosopher has had something to say about it.

References

• 'Ernest Weekley and Anne Scott, Collins English Gem Dictionary (London: Collins, 1954).

• Rene Descarates, The Philosophical Writings of Descarates, trans. R.Cottingham, R. Stoothoff and D. Murdoch, I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)343. Descarates, The Philosophical 245.

• David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748; Indianpolis: Hackett Publishing, 1977) viii.

• Jonathan Edwards, Freedom of Will, ed. P.Ramsey (1754; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957).

• Stanley Benn and William Weinstein, "Being Free to Act, and Being a Free Man," Mind, Vol. LXXX (1971):194-211.

• Peter A. Facione, Donald Scherer and Thomas Attig, "Freedom," Values and Society: An Introduction to Ethics and Social Philosophy (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1978)103.

• Thomas Hutchinson, Wordsworth: Poetical Works (London: Oxford University Press, 1969)412.

• Joe Andrew, Women in Russian Literature: 1780-1863 (London: Macmillan, 1988)3.

• Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, trans, and ed. H.M.Parshely (1953; Harmaondworth: Penguin Books, 1983).

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Published

2022-12-30

How to Cite

Dr. Astha Gupta. (2022). The Liberation of Woman in the Works of Shashi Deshpande. Innovative Research Thoughts, 8(4), 248–256. Retrieved from https://irt.shodhsagar.com/index.php/j/article/view/1201