Gender and Culture in Margaret Atwood’s Writings

Name of Author : Mrs. P Aiswarya Lakshmi, Dr. P Arockia Nathan

Abstract: Margaret Atwood is one who managed to realize the pathetic plight of women. She has become a legend being a female feministic author in Canada. It is said that the conscious efforts of women empowerment started after the First World War during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Women were given rights to work and earn adequate salary. During 1960s and 1970s, the Women’s Liberation Movement brought an unexpected change by providing freedom to women up to an extent. It was a journey of women’s emancipation from exploitation which took almost a hundred years to make women feel liberated from institutional exploitation. Margaret Atwood also wrote her masterpiece with such incidents and happenings which clearly show the path of women’s emancipation. She depicted the early position of women living in ignorance of their exploitation and later their rejection of it in order to live the life of freedom.

Keywords : Gender, Culture, Female feminist

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