Question

Tamil authors who wrote about women education

Answer 1

Contemporary women writers of Tamilnadu.

Author: 

Venkataraman S

Source: 

In: Women in development: perspectives from selected states of India, Vol. 1, edited by P.R. Reddy, P. Sumangala. Delhi, India, B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1998. 365-78.

Abstract: 

This book chapter reviews writers and their literary forms, achievements, and fictional works among women from Tamil Nadu state, India. Modern women writers, from 1947 to the present, have emphasized that women are equal to men. After 1958, women writers introduced the idea of feminism as a basic human right. Fiction records societal changes and the liberation of women from social constraints and unequal treatment. Feminism is defined as equality in the home and society. Feminist writers disagreed with men's domination over women and obsession with women's chastity. Pre-independence writers stressed political independence and liberation from all constraints. Magazines published by women promoted social independence. Many writers emphasized the education of women and the older generations' concern about women neglecting household duties for learning. Women writers expected that increased education would lead to an independent nature, economic freedom, and social equality. The problems of child marriage and child widowhood were exposed. It was expected that men would refuse to allow women's freedom. Many early novels exposed the problems with the dowry system. Post independence writers were well educated and belonged to the middle or upper classes. Some were active in the women's liberation movement. Writers conducted field research in order to document the lives of women. Fiction focused on the problems of women in middle and upper class families, among career and poor working class women, gender relations, women as sex symbols, and as lonely, married or divorced women