Sexual Poetics and Gender
Mainstreaming
Pragyaa Gupta¹, Prashant Mahajan²
ABSTRACT
The struggle between a
stereotype image and the ‘raised consciousness’ of women is the
essence of the present article. It delineates direct and indirect
influence of sexual poetics in gender mainstreaming. Women poets
such as Sujata Bhatt, Suniti Namjoshi, Eunice d’Souza, Kamala Das
and Imtiaz Dharker have been taken under consideration in order to
study how a woman poet has to confront alone the problems of
creativity under gender equation. In the context of India poetry for
women is symbolic for the quest for roots, seeking new answers for
the old questions, the courage to voice out dissatisfaction and
insufficiencies. Indian poetesses are the poetic foundation in
bringing out and resolving dichotomous dilemmas. They make the
society to question on the belief system and to look anew to the
voiceless women. This article is an attempt to connect the voice of
women poets in consideration with the concept of gender
mainstreaming, seeking to highlight common elements as much as
individual sensibilities for the research aims at integrating
women’s marginalised poetry into mainstream poetic ethos it studies
that depiction of a feminist s sheet within a masculine syntax and
celebrates the emergence of a new consciousness and new possibility
for women.
Keywords: feminist, feminism, gender mainstreaming, raised
consciousness, stereotype metaphor, women poets, patriarchal
society, negation, sterility, marriages and relationships,
suppression, pathos, sexual hungers
