Reviewing and Re-Viewing Kannada Women's Fiction and The Concept of Feminism

Abstract

I had discussed the definition or formulation of feminism and also raised the difficulty in formulating a definite concept of the term. The paper had also raised queries such as whether feminist theories are useful in understanding women's writing, whether women writers are aware of theories of feminism, whether the women writers write with the conscious purpose of changing the existence of women or do women writers just depict the social and cultural reality.