Volume III Special Issue I January 2023

Name of Author : Karthika Sudhakaran

Title of the paper : Women as Pure as Water: An Ecofeminist Study of Sarah Josephs Aathi

Abstract: This paper entitled “Women as pure as water An Ecofeminist study of Sarah Joseph’s Aathi” attempts to Analyze the novel Aathi from the ecofeminist perspective, how both water bodies and women in the Aathi village were Equally exploited and victimized by male supremacy and commercialization were painted here. Here in this novel water stands as the mirror image of feminity. How modernism and industrialization pollute water as well as other natural resources, thereby how man loses his Or her very existence is being discussed. The Virginity of women as well as the purity of water becoming as a commodity to men in that patriarchal society . In the novel author revealing how the exploitation of water resources became the exploitation of humanity. The evocation of the sexual imagery suggest the pollution of water bodies in Aathi village. Sarah Joseph is a well known writer and a popular feminist and activist. Nilavariyathe, paapathara etc. are her major collections of shorts stories.

Keywords : Pollution, Virginity, Commercialization, Victimization, Patriarchy, Purity, Commodification

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Page Number : 90-96