FEMALE FEMINISTS VERSUS MALE FEMINISTS (Pages 374-386) by Dr. Bishun kumar in THE ENGLISH RESEARCH EXPRESS / ISSN:2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print)

The idea of viewing feminism in two everlasting contradictory streams created by male and female feminists is rather absurd and may appear to be prima facie illogical. It is a fault line that seems making a crack in the crystal clear concept of feminism. But I apologize for some exceptions, as my observations are basically inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a foundational text marked by a female’s observations on women and men. She finds differences in perceptions of women of male and female feminists, be they education, rights, freedom from patriarchal dominance or economic independence. A comparative study of the works of Tennyson, Rousseau, Hardy, Pope, Aristotle, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao and Manohar Malgonkar so called the male feminists and the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, Helene Cixous, Elaine Showalter, Virginia Woolf, Attia Husain, Shashi Deshpande, Mamta Kalia, Toni Morrison, Tahmina Durrani, Begum Rukaiyat Sakhwat Husain and Kate Millet produces an evidence of the difference in perceptions of women by male and female feminists. The present paper aims at finding out men’s motive, their politics of subordination and imperialization, and the megalomaniac nature of passion. Though the work requires an entire thesis, this paper limits me to present my views briefly. Key Words: Patriarchal Dominance, exploitation, Caliban Complex, girling, cultural conditioning.