Feminism In Ice Candy Man

A piece of writing, which justifies, propagates or perpetuates discrimination against women cannot be termed as feminist, only that artistic work which sensitizes its readers to the practices of subjugation and opposes them can be treated as being feminist in nature. The women- characters of Ice Candy- Man draw our attention to the facts of victimization of women and their compulsions to define their lives according to the pre- fixed gender roles. They also expose the patriarchal biases present in the archetypal social perceptions. In a patriarchal set- up which is essentially discriminatory against women and emphasizes on conditioning them for life- long, the female characters of ‘Ice Candy- Man’ are not only conscious of their desires, but

Feminism in ‘Ice Candy- Man’ and Theme of victimization of women in ‘Ice Candy- Man’:
Today, feminism occupies an important place in modern literature. It is a modern political, social, economic, and cultural movement which focuses on the exploitation of women by the patriarchal system of society. The concerns of this movement, which implicitly as well as explicitly questions the positioning of women as “inferior” or “defective” (Aristotle), “passive” and “subordinate” in comparison to men.
Feminist challenged these assumptions of woman’s secondary status to the primary status of man and the presumptuousness of compartmentalizing her essence as a home maker, a mother, and a stationary, presence in stark contrast to the stereotypes of masculinity, male strength, wanderlust and aggression. The feminists identify the origins of this “Sexist” bias in patriarchy. According to the epochal study of Kate Millet, patriarchy constitutes ‘perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.’
Toril Moi a later feminist critic