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Feminist Utopia or Dystopia: A Comparative Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and Suniti Namjoshi’s The Mothers of Maya Diip

Author(s) Ms. TP Ihiuliu
Country India
Abstract There is no society in the world however developed it may be or how many times it has undergone revolutions, in which women are treated as equals. A woman remains as a woman till today. She remains as ‘the other sex’ due to the man-made gender-gap.

With the rise of Feminist movement, feminist utopian narratives also became popular. Works of ‘Utopian feminist writers’ have been discussed and studied individually but a comparison has rarely been drawn between two works from different timeline and different cultures and attempts have rarely been made to relate the struggles and problems across periods and cultures.

The paper employed comparative and analytical method to study Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland which grew out of the Nineteenth century and early Twentieth century American women’s movement and Suniti Namjoshi’s The Mothers of Maya Diip, a Twentieth century work of an Indian modern woman who attacks patriarchy and its established ethos. Attempts has been made to understand if these worlds they created in their books are truly utopia or dystopia. The themes and motifs, narrative structures and techniques in both the novels and the feminist discourses employed by each author, are analysed and compared, providing insights into the authors’ perspectives and societal contexts in which they were written. The study established that the supposed utopian all-female world - Gilman’s Herland and Namjoshi’s Maya Diip that they created in their respective works were not rid of flaws such as inequality, hypocrisy, hierarchical power structures and limitations imposed on individual autonomy and they indeed are Dystopias, which disprove the escapism of fantasy but represents confrontation with a possible reality.
Keywords Feminism, Utopia, Dystopia
Field Arts
Published In Volume 7, Issue 3, May-June 2025
Published On 2025-06-09
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i03.47538
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9pz6j
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