Manisha Goswami
Independent Researcher, Department of English Literature
E-mail: goswamimanisha@gmail.com
Issue: Volume 2 No. 2 (June 2026) Anubodhan
Received: 10 June 2026 / Accepted: 28 June 2026 / Published: 30 June 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.65885/anubodhan.v2n2.2026.072
Abstract
The reminiscence of women as subjects is a glorified horror that modern society is trying to undo throughout the world, envisioning women as an emerging part of race that long awaited the opportunity to take part in worldly objects, advancing the growth of social, cultural, political, economic, and other constituents of the society that make it great as an equal holder with men. Women’s empowerment is not only an emerging genre of modern society but also a truth uttered by centuries of women’s subjugation. This article engages with the literary representation of post-independence Indian society through the realist vision of Mahasweta Devi. Her splendid portrayal of women characters in her work has allowed this article to work on the objectification of women and prostitution as open subjugation. “Breast Stories” is a well-renowned post-independence work of Mahasweta Devi that criticizes women’s breasts as just objects of lust and greed for satisfaction. “Bedanabala”, on the other hand, encourages the voice of the scarred lives of prostitutes. Both works condemn the society that takes women as a commodity like any other pet animals. This article aims to conjugate the explored and unexplored aspects of Mahasweta Devi by using a radical feminist critical approach towards the cultural constraints, sexual violence, bodily objectification, and male dominance over female prostitutes of contemporary society.
Keywords: Women in Literature, Women’s brutality, Sexual violence, Female body, Critical Feminism.
How to cite: Goswami, M. (2026). I am a Woman: Converging Mahasweta Devi’s Women Characters with Modern Feminism. Anubodhan, 2(2), 143–150. https://doi.org/10.65885/anubodhan.v2n2.2026.072