Resistance to Sexual Abuses in Lynn Nottage’s Ruined

Abstract

This research work reflects to the social periphery and its relation with human beings. The society has been changed along with political system, and social relation and status. But any society exists making conflict on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity and caste. The major thrust of this study is to light on female domination with sexual abuses in Nottage’s play, Ruined. Gender discrimination is one of the major factors of gender abuses study. It is age long practice of the western society. Most of the female characters of the drama fall under the situation of domination, sexual abuse. In terms of sexual abuse women are more victimized by patriarchal society. Gender bias, lack of power and agency women are subjugated, dominated in the patriarchal society. Women are suffered from the whites’ domination, exploitation, and oppression because the western society has practiced gender discrimination. The character such as Salima, Josephine, Sophie, etc are exploited forcefully.

Women are suffered from the male domination, exploitation, and oppression because the western society has practiced gender discrimination. Women have never experienced equality, access, and opportunity, though they live with the men’s in the same society. The research applies theory of feminism. It also applies subaltern study of Millette’s ideas. To find the result, both primary and secondary research methods are being used. Female have never experienced equality, access, and opportunity, though they live with the male in the same society. This concept of feminism studies observes social construction with social relation. It observes society from marginal perspective. This research work reveals about the domination and sexual abuses in Western countries. Women are always marginalized not only by the Male but by creating their own ideological cultures of female that would not be better in the contemporary world. So that the main character of the drama tries his best to be against for giving challenges to the male.