Marginalization of women in Shashi Deshpande’s The Binding Vine

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Author: Dr. Bulbul Gupta, Anil Kumar Shabharwal

Keywords: Marginalization, denial, oppression, submissive, orthodox, patriarchy.

Abstract: The paper aims to depict Social Marginalization by which individuals particularly women are systematically pushed to the edges of society and are denied equal access to opportunities, resources and power. To do so, The Binding Vine authored by Shashi Deshpande is studied and analyzed wherein the novelist has intensely critiqued marginalization of women in a deeply entrenched patriarchal Indian society. The present study elucidates how women across different generations and social strata are systematically oppressed, silenced and denied agency, primarily by way of sexual and physical violence, denial of personal and professional identity and societal pressure to conform to traditional and submissive roles.

Article Info: Received on: 21 Mar 2025 Revised on: 15 Apr 2025 Accepted on: 20 Apr 2025

DOI: 10.22161/ijeel.4.2.9

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