Autonomy Of Women Essay

Women are bound to their oppression “by male control of the dominant institutions and the dominant ideology, by women’s lack of solidarity with one another, by the biological necessity that requires coupling, by the very antiquity of oppressive arrangements that make them appear natural, hence unalterable and sometimes by women’s complicity”. Hence in order both to gain equality and to realise their human potential, women must transcend their distinctive femaleness to lead the kind of life men do, in other words, they must be autonomous. Behaviour exhorts women to achieve autonomy, to discover and nurture their authentic self through lived experiences for self-realization. This argument may apply in case of Manjari, as she negotiates many opposed discourages and moves forward and backward in a request to know who and what she is.

One would argue here that this position of Deshpande clearly indicates that she vouches for relational autonomy for women, that they would be embedded in family yet independent enough to realize their authentic self. Instead of being economically, emotionally and psychologically dependent on men, they would independently nourish ambitions and pursue goals for self-fulfillment. In the context of changing world one lives in, it has become imperative to do away with separate domains for woman and man and to redefine man woman relationship as equal and complimentary and on terms of domination and subordination. For Deshpande, a world without frightened, dependent, trapped, frustrated women is a better world for all to live