Summary Of Odd In An Even World By Kamala Markandaya

Mahasweta Devi’s short story, “Giribala,” is about the life of Giribala, a girl of Talsana village located in India. Born into a caste in a time when it was still customary to pay a bride-price, Giri is sold to Aulchand by her father. From this point on, we see a series of unfortunate, tragic events that take place in Giri’s life as a result of the circumstances surrounding Giri’s life. There are many issues in Giri’s life in India that Devi highlights to readers. First, the economic instability of the village leads to an extremely poor quality of life for the lower, working classes. Next, the cruel role of women determined by men in society is to either satisfy the sexual desires of men or to reproduce offspring who can work or be sold off to marriages. There are also other social norms and beliefs which discriminate against women that will be discussed.

It is foolish to think following the community's beliefs and traditions is better than what one believes in. In the novel “The hero's walk” by Anita Rau Badami when family traditions are broken, many harsh consequences are made. In the Sripathi family, decisions made causes society. guilt and female rights to be an issue.

Cultural norms mould the behavior and personalities of people in their societies. With the introduction of modernization and globalization into cultures, change in societies develop. Women play an important role in many cultures and with advancement in time, the roles that they may have traditionally play may evolve. The ethnographies, Wayward Women written by Holly Wardlow and Juki Girls, Good Girls by Caitrin Lynch, both discuss the transformations which ensue among women’s gender roles on both the Huli culture of Papua New Guinea and Sri Lankan Bhuddisim respectively, as a result of both modernization and globalization.

In today’s society, women impact the world around them in many different and significant ways. Some women influence their communities with great force while others never notice their true importance in their societies. In India, Mishri Yadav is bound to her life as a modest, confined woman who cannot talk to men and must remain in the shadows. In the United States, Michele Noonan is bound to her life as a caretaker for her family who can express herself in whichever way she feels. These two defined people show the importance of how women are viewed extremely different as their countries vary. Some women, such as those in India, are viewed as lower than men with less value, knowledge, and potential. These places do not believe that women contain

Society often tries to control how women think , feel and move due to the ideal thought of how our society should be ran. “What’s the greatest lesson a woman can learn?” ask Kaur. Her answer is “Since day one she has already had everything she needs within herself , it’s the world that convinced her she did not.”. Kaur’s position is that the world is what holds women back from their full potential being that there is bias and double standards regarding both genders. Kaur faces oppression in more ways than one being that she is a woman of color and that in her time men were the dominance of the

“Please don’t play your games with a helpless poor girl” declared Dhowli. The Misra boy leaned in closer to her replying, “I’m not playing games.” Dhowli then shouted back “ You’ll leave after you tire of the game, and what will become of me? Am I to be like Jhale? No, deota, not that.” (238). I’m hesitate to keep reading after this line thinking to myself how I feel sorry for Dhowli and who she is going to become since getting pregnant with a Misra boy who is dominant in the caste system. Dhowli creates an ambitious, courageous, and philosophical figure in the short story “Dhowli” by Mashasweta Devi. In the short story the caste system is well defined showing of social stratification of two opposite levels of the social chain in India. To an American reader the foreignness of how India treats single mothers is how this short story stands out.

Culture can have a large effect on our daily lives, and can shape our thoughts and behaviors. The society an individual surrounds themselves in influences their decisions. It affects how they perceive themselves, their personal identity and reach their personal life goals. In the novel, The Secret Daughter, Shilpa Somaya Gowda explores the significant impact of social culture on the individual. It is evident through the experience of two women born into two different cultures, Kavita in India and Somer in America, and through the life of Asha, an Indian child adopted into an American home. The author uses these examples to show how different cultures contrast, and change an individual 's thinking and perspectives.

In Chapter one Mathangi Subramanian describes how she went back to India in 1999 when she went was nineteen. She describes how even though she was nineteen her grandmother was asking “ Mathangi when are you going to get married” and her mother tells her grandmother “ that I always told her and her brother that they should be independent”. This story remind me of my own mother who raised me and my siblings to be independent and that we should only marry someone if we are in love. She wanted us to focus on our education and the things that we love such as running, reading, and dancing. Many young girls are not taught independence at a young age, but pressure to get married before they become “too old”. In addition, in this article Subramanian

“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping begins when the doctor says, ‘It’s a girl’.” said Shirley Chisholm. Women in who are born into patriarchal societies face unimaginable struggles and horrors everyday. The article Forced Prostitution tells the reader about the struggle Indian women face everyday in their patriarchal society. They are raped and dehumanized on a regular basis because of the way their society works. Much in the same way Lakshmi from Patricia McCormick’s novel Sold, about sex trafficking in Nepal, is dehumanized. She is sold to a prostitution ring in India by her stepfather, who can no longer provide enough money for food, shelter, and his gambling addiction. Both of these texts show that societies where patriarchal

An analysis of example can be derived from the aforementioned discriminatory sexist roles in India that prior to globalization highly favored the male population verses the female population. The female population in India has previously been less than second class citizens. Indian women's cultural roles have been previously defined by traditional customs that are centuries old and no longer apply in this day and age. Previous to globalization, Indian women were to take total domestic responsibility. They were not allowed formal education as the majority of teachers and pupils were male, and the chances of a female remaining chaste was slim in those settings, and related to tradition, females

By nineteenth century, a myriad of men and women left the homes in their homeland and traveled to the exotic and mystified country of India, where they tried to replicate their own society. The women led hidden lives, out of the history books, often supporting their husbands’ conquests and even

India has a rich and diversified culture filled with colourful folk lore, gracious people, a delightful profusion of regional cuisines and breathtaking natural wonders. And yet, as shocking as it may seem to the more advanced cultures of the world, the archaic system of dowry, female foeticide is alive and thriving in contemporary India. Shobhan Bantwal, an Indian American novelist mainly deals with certain elements of contemporary Indian

Education has a significant value for all students, boys and girls are valued as equal. This study is an insight on how girl’s education, economical status, and cultural are valued differently in South Kashmir, India. Girls are faced with several challenges and their education is inadequate, due to attendance rate, teacher shortage, and improper curriculum. The young ladies are faced with additional hardships at home; poor living condition and no monies. The enrollment population of girls are lower than boys. Education is supposed to be exposed to all students, but in some cases, it is not. (Ahmad Gul & Khan, 2015)

In this scenario, the girl child has a doublefold war front to fight it out for herself-one being the older women who do not allow the girl to rise, as, they do not seem to understand the need for it, and the other is the male counterpart who have the fear of seeing her become an equal as, this will snatch away from the man his centuries old platform of domination from him. In reality, what the present situation is in India is also true about the whole world but of course it is not as bad as it is in India and this is because of lack of education among the girls.

In today 's culture, women assume an essential part in every family. Women were once viewed as the minority, in which their occupation was to be the overseer of their family. This is similar in the case of Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s Secret Daughter; Kavita, one of the female protagonists in the novel. Growing up in a typical Indian household, with practically zero education, and was taught how to be a housewife from an early age. Kavitha, taking after Indian customs, had an arranged marriage once an appropriate husband was found for her. Then again, Somer, another female protagonist in the story, experienced childhood in a Caucasian family, with a proper education and was given the choice to pick her life partner. Motherhood is explored through both Kavita and Somer’s hardships in their post-pregnancy, Somer’s protectiveness of Asha, and Kavita’s continuous sacrifice for her son’s education.