Abstract:
It is now over one hundred years that the women are fighting for their emancipation,
equal rights and right to decision making from their male counterparts. However, this long
struggle seems hardly providing equal rights to women, let alone the emancipation that they seek
mainly. Although there has been significant change how women lead their life today from one
hundred years ago, the inherent structure of patriarchy still suppresses them. This paper intends
to scrutinize the condition of women in selected writing of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, a major
proponent of feminism during the then British Bengal, and Anita Desai, a contemporary postcolonial writer on feminism in India. The objective of this paper is to prove that the women cannot
attain emancipation from patriarchy even if they are provided education and economic freedom.
