Defining Feminism Through Subversion of Superiority and Inferiority Complexes: A Gender-Just Perspective
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Abstract
This paper proposes to establish how a gender just society can be created through assimilation of masculine and feminine traits as per the demand of modern times. The comparison of cultural and religious lineage of western and Indian societies gives us an insight into the misogynistic and gender just approach of two distinct cultures. The sharp contrast that exist in seeing the woman as sinner in the western religious beliefs and glorification of women in its different forms in Indian religious practices clearly indicate that the balanced society is possible when the prejudices of inferiority and superiority are thrown away both in theory and practice. The demands and needs of modern times seem more closer to the gender just society of ancient India, though in a new perspective as with the passage of time the gender roles have undergone several changes . Interconnectedness and interdependence of two distinct genders that was the norm in the ancient Vedic period is the only way through which the importance of both the genders can be maintained.