Sarojini Sahoo's Feminine Reflections  (English, Hardcover, K V Dominic)

About the Book Though there are many feminist theoreticians and writers in the world, particularly in the West, Sarojini Sahoo is different from them all in her ideas and outlooks. Western feminist writers like Virginia Woolf, Judith Butler and Simone De Beauvoir argue for equality, taking a confrontational stance on male supremacy. Dr. Sahoo takes feminism as femininity?the total entity of femalehood which is entirely different from malehood. She opposes male hegemony which is an offshoot of patriarchy. What is required is not the supremacy of one gender over the other, but the perfect harmony and rhythm between the two. Unlike other feminists, she is an advocate of married life and families with children. There are nine critical/research articles in this book examining different themes and aspects of Dr. Sarojini?s works, mainly the novels The Dark Abode and The Goddess in Exile. In addition, there are eight excellent interviews with her. The interviewers are great writers and critics and they have succeeded in bringing out whatever a reader would like to know of Dr. Sahoo as a writer and a person. Dr. K. V. Dominic (57), English poet, critic, short story writer and editor is a retired professor of the PG & Research Department of English, Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala, India. He took his PhD on the topic ?East-West Conflicts in the Novels of R. K. Narayan with Special Reference to The Vendor of Sweets, Waiting for the Mahatma, The Painter of Signs and The Guide? from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. In addition to innumerable poems, short stories and critical articles published in national and international journals, he has authored/edited nineteen books so far. About the Editor Prof. Dominic is the Secretary of Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics (GIEWEC), Editor and Publisher of the international refereed biannual journal, International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML) and Editor-in-Chief of the Guild?s international refereed biannual journal, Writers Editors Critics (WEC). He is on the Advisory and Editorial Boards of several leading journals in India. International Poets Academy, Chennai conferred on him its highest award Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. He is also the recipient of Stephen Gill Academy Fellowship.