Cilappatikaram is an interesting piece of literature that makes a woman the lead of the story. More than that, she ends up defending her husband and “winning” him back in some ways. But how feminist can we call this story?
'I did not like wearing bras. Doesn’t that mean that I should stop wearing them? It is my body, it hurts, so why continue to wear it?' writes the author.
The Second Wave of feminism is usually demarcated from the 1960s to the late 1980s. It was a reaction to women returning to their roles as housewives and mothers after the Second World War.