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It has long been held that a writer’s socio-economic standing is what dictates their capacity to produce great literature. While this does have truth in it (as explained in works such as Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own), it is arguable that this belief is a construct of a patriarchal society trying to appease their feminist critics as to why women writers are ignored. This paper will argue that despite the difference of gender, between the writers of the Ramayana and the Pillow Book, it is cultural construction (especially Continue reading...