Abstract: American women began their study of the stereotyped characterization of women in men's writing in 1960s. Mary Elman, in Thinking about Women (1968) discusses stereotypes of women in literature written by men and alternative and subversive points of view in some writings by women. But the more fierce attack on the male literary tradition was made by Kate Millett in Sexual Politics (1970). She explores how women are dehumanized in the novels of male writers like Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, Jean Genet and D. H. Lawrence. According to her, patriarchy is the sole cause of women's oppression where women are subordinated by the male, and they are assigned an inferior position. She argues that 'sex' is biologically determined but 'gender' is a psychological concept which is cultural identity.
Keywords: Color Purple, Analysis, characterization, literature.
Title: CONCEPT OF WOMANISM IN ALICE WALKER'S 'THE COLOR PURPLE': AN ANALYSIS
Author: Mugdad Abudulimam Abood
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3164 (online), ISSN 2348-3156 (Print)
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